Developmental Relationships - A Framework to Foster PYD

By
Susan Spagnuolo

New research from the Search Institute finds that young people are highly motivated by relationships with parents, teachers, and other adults when five actions occur within the relationship: expressing care, challenging growth, providing support, sharing power, and expanding possibility. These five actions might seem like easy and fairly obvious things to do, but both quantitative and qualitative studies have found that young people believe that adults who do two or more of those things are relatively rare. Read more about it and download the framework - available in both English and Spanish - on the Search Institute website.