Community Asset Mapping
Asset mapping—a strength-based approach to community development—is a core feature of the Youth Justice Board curriculum, providing Youth Justice Board members with new tools to understand their neighborhoods.
As part of the Center’s commitment to helping young people understand policy development and how it affects their lives and communities, the Center uses community asset mapping as a training tool with young people. The asset mapping exercise developed by the Youth Justice Board staff enables young people to approach a community-based issue with an eye towards understanding what resources a community already possesses that can be part of the solution.
The Center offers training in how to lead asset mapping with young people. The slides and handouts below are samples from a longer training for adults about the value of asset mapping as a youth programming resource.