This is a practical, tried-and-trusted guide to empowering children to live healthy, productive and positive lives. Over the last 20 years, researcher at the internationally renowned Search Institute in Minneapolis have identified 40 Developmental Assets that all kids need in their lives - things like family support, a caring community, and resistance skills. What Kids Need to Succeed brings this research together in an easily accessible and practical format that helps parents, teachers, counselors, and others help kids live healthy, productive, positive lives and stay out of trouble. Also included are helpful checklists that allow adults to identify the Assets kids already have, so they can focus on the ones they need.