PYD Report

Press announcement that went out today from Project Cornerstone in San Jose, CA:

Project Cornerstone is pleased to announce that Representative Mike Honda of California’s 15th Congressional District has secured funding from the United States Department of Education to support a Santa Clara County-wide survey of developmental asset levels in youth in grades 4-12. During fall 2010, we plan to administer surveys to a sample of approximately 40,000 youth in schools and districts throughout Santa Clara County.

This survey will be Project Cornerstone’s third countywide effort to evaluate asset levels in Santa Clara County youth. Our first survey, administered in 1999 to 4,800 youth, generated the community interested to begin Project Cornerstone’s efforts to train and mobilize adults countywide to build asset levels and resulted in the creation of our School Partnerships program. The 2004 survey, administered to 13,700 youth total, resulted in the creation of additional community partnerships and school participation in asset-building programs. We are pleased to meet the requests of our partner schools and districts to re-administer the survey so that they can better understand the asset levels and needs of their current student populations.

The results of the survey will be valuable not only to Project Cornerstone but to all organizations that seek to support the healthy development of children and youth. By generating current data about youth in our community, we can help our partners analyze the effectiveness of their efforts and help them identify areas where there are opportunities for improvement. And, by providing current data about our youth to the community at large, we hope to renew the motivation of adults throughout the community to commit to helping every young person feel valued, respected, and known.

Special thanks to the schools and districts that are allowing us to survey their students, and especially to Representative Honda for his assistance in obtaining this funding.

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