Belonging can grow in digital spaces, too. For LGBTQ+ young people, affirming online communities can offer opportunities to explore identity, build relationships, and contribute.
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Build the conditions young people need to thrive. Search Institute’s five-minute Relational Culture Checkup helps your team reflect on strengths and opportunities to support strong youth-adult relationships.
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Search Institute’s developmental relationships tools are designed to be flexible. Choose the resource that fits your students, your schedule and need, then adapt it to your classroom or youth support setting. Find the tool that works for you:
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Challenge growth with care, not pressure. When a young person faces a setback, reflect together and identify a next step. Give them room to problem-solve, with encouragement and specific feedback. Explore more approaches:
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Parent-teacher conferences are more than updates. Listen to families, celebrate student strengths, and set goals together to build lasting partnerships that support youth thriving. Explore these practical strategies!
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Youth thriving takes more than a single program. It takes Developmental Relationships and systems that sustain them. Explore how shared purpose, youth voice, and relational infrastructure connect schools, families, and communities.
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What helps young people move from showing up to engaging? Learn how Developmental Assets, from positive identity to supportive relationships, can nurture youth engagement and motivation.
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Strong relationships start with being known. Explore Search Institute’s Developmental Relationships tools that help high school educators know students beyond academics. hubs.la/Q04yVqyt0
Developmental Relationships don't happen by accident. They grow through intentional actions that help youth feel known, supported, and connected. Our What’s in a Developmental Relationship? activity helps participants map the people who shape their lives.
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This #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’re honoring the importance of relationships in helping young people explore identity, build confidence, and thrive.
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Each and every student deserves to feel known, supported, and valued at school. Including those who may need additional accommodations to fully engage and thrive.
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Relationships can open doors to opportunity. This toolkit helps mentors strengthen Developmental Relationships and build young people’s social capital through practical activities for mentors and mentees.
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During #HispanicHeritageMonth, we’re reflecting on how Developmental Relationships with math teachers can support Black and Latino students’ math engagement. When students feel seen, heard, and connected to learning, they’re more likely to stay engaged.
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Developmental Relationships don’t happen by chance. Search Institute’s framework offers five practical ways to help young people feel known, supported, respected, and connected to possibility. Explore it: hubs.la/Q04xm8640
What helps young people thrive? Understand the young people you serve, examine barriers, listen to youth perspectives, and take action to expand access to the external assets that make thriving possible.
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What do young people need most to thrive? Strong developmental relationships. Listen to the podcast and explore what it means to take a strengths-based, research-informed approach to youth thriving.
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Strong relationships help young people grow, build resilience, and thrive. Search Institute’s Relationship Check helps educators, practitioners, families, and peers reflect on where Developmental Relationships are strong—and where they can grow.
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What could change if philanthropy more fully centered adolescent development? This guide helps funders turn developmental science into action—with practical entry points and real-world examples that can deepen impact and help young people thrive.
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Relationships are the foundation of youth thriving. When schools, programs, and communities build relationship-rich environments rooted in care, trust, shared power, and youth voice, young people can grow, contribute, and thrive.
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When schools invest in Developmental Relationships, student thriving grows. In Search Institute’s work with three middle schools, the share of students reporting a strong relationship with an adult at school rose from 69% to nearly 80% in one year.
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