The Darien Youth Asset Team
THRIVING YOUTH: CONNECTED COMMUNITY
Involving all sectors of our community, we are a catalyst in Darien for developmental asset building through meaningful experiences, opportunities, skills and relationships that benefit all our children.
For more information about Thriving Youth: Connected Community, please contact Coordinator Martha Rhein at The Community Fund of Darien or if you are a Darien High School student contact Evan Rogers evrogers@darienps.org or Jay Alter survivor33@optonline.net.
You can build assets every day, everywhere, as many times as you want. Once you start looking, you'll find plenty of opportunities that fit your time, energy, resources, commitment and comfort level.
Asset #3 - Other Adult Relationships
Asset #14 - Adult Role Models
Asset-Building Ideas for Senior Citizens
Growing older can bring many positive things: knowledge, wisdom, experience and perspective. Sharing some of this wealth with young people builds assets in a way that no other age group can.
- Reach out to the children and youth in your family
- Introduce yourself to the children and youth who live near you. Learn their names and greet them when you see them.
- Speak well of children to other adults.
- Spend time with young people, doing things you enjoy.
- Volunteer at a child-care center, school, or faith-based youth program.
- If you had a special older person in your life when you were a child, think about the things that made that relationship special and offer the young people in your life some of those same gifts.
From the Search Institute resource "Pass It On"
Please join us! Even your smallest actions can make a difference!
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Thriving Youth Task Force Members
Barbara Alter
Mary Bernat
Sam Bocuzzi
Mark Cappelli
Nyisha Clough
Kathleen Del Col
Sue DeNunzio
Katie Duker
Natalie Gallant
Ingrid Gillespie
April Greene
Barry Halpin
Dan Haron
Sophia Hughes
Kiki Karpen
Grace King
Sarah Ludwig
Alison Martin
Janice Marzano
Sara Mathews-Dixon
Catherine McGrath
Laurie Orem
Beth Paris
Leslie Pennington
Edward Petnert
Lauren Pote
Marc Power
Martha Rhein
Moira Rizzo
Jamie Roach-Murray
Donna Russo
Mary Scalise
Abigail Sickinger
Alicia Sillars
Jayme Stevenson
Natasha Torre-Heffron
Marj Trifone
Elisabeth Tullis-Schneider
Lynn Tusa
Andy Ward
Eileen Whalen
Eric Woelker
Darien High School Parents Association
Department of Social Services
Police Department, Youth Officer
Police Department, Youth Officer
Kids in Crisis
Darien High School Parents Association
Council of Darien School Parents
Youth Asset Team Representative
Chamber of Commerce
Lower Fairfield County Regional Action Council
YMCA Nursery School
Liberation Programs
Darien High School, Principal
Liberation Programs
The Community Fund of Darien
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Youth Minister
Darien Library
Ox Ridge Elementary School
The Depot, Program Director
Liberation Programs
The Depot, Development Director
Council of Darien School Parents
Darien Senior Center
YWCA Darien/Norwalk
Community Volunteer
Child Guidance Center
Middlesex Middle School, Counselor
Thriving Youth Coordinator
Marriage and Family Therapist
Stamford Pediatrics
Darien High School, Vice Principal
Middlesex Middle School, Counselor
Youth Asset Team Representative
Darien Youth Director
Town of Darien, Selectwoman
Holmes Elementary School
Darien High School, Faculty and Coach
Family Centers/Center for Hope
The Center for Sexual Assault Crisis Counseling
Young Life
Darien High School, Psychologist
Darien High School, YAT Faculty Advisor
