Resources: Organizations

These organizations are listed as potential resources for additional information on the topics below. If you have any comments or questions about any of them, please contact the organization directly.

Rites of Passage

• American Rite of Passage. An essay by Craig Corderman about The Center’s Rite of Passage Experience®. This essay written when he was a senior at Newell-Fonda High School, Newell, Iowa, as part of the 1999-2000 Harry Singer Foundation Essay Contest.

• School of Lost Borders. Founded over 30 years ago, this is the oldest school in the United States that trains individuals and groups to reintroduce wilderness-oriented rites of passage into modern culture. They also provide nature-based therapeutic experiences for individuals in life crisis and transition.

• Northwaters and Langskib Wilderness Programs. An organization that has been offering outdoor adventure based educational trips from boys, girls and adults since 1971.

Community Development

• Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute. Established in 1995, the ABCD Institute, a project of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University, disseminates the findings of John Kretzmann and John McKnight's two decades of research on capacity-building community development through interactions with community builders and by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.

• Community Building Resources. CBR assists community groups and organizations in creating and delivering fun and effective workshops and presentations on Community Capacity Building and Asset Mapping®.

• Connecticut Assets Network (CAN). CAN is a grassroots nonprofit network of citizens and organizations that promote the integration of successful use of asset-based strategies for community development.

Youth Development

• The Arts & After School Youth Development Resources. A listing of resources and programs focusing on using arts-related youth development programs.

• The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). An organization whose mission is to establish social and emotional learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school.

• Search Institute. An independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. Serves organizations, communities, educators, and families.