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Internal Assets
- Achievement motivation: Young person is motivated to do well in school.
- Bonding to school: Young person cares about her or his school.
- Homework: Young person reports doing at least one hour of homework every school day.
- Reading for pleasure: Young person reads for pleasure three or more hours per week.
- School engagement: Young person is actively engaged in learning.
- Personal power: Young person feels he or she has control over "things that happen to me."
- Positive view of personal future: Young person is optimistic about her or his personal future.
- Self-esteem: Young person reports having a high self-esteem.
- Sense of purpose: Young person reports that "my life has a purpose."
- Caring: Young person places high value on helping other people.
- Equality and social justice: Young person places high value on promoting equality and reducing hunger and poverty.
- Honesty: Young person "tells the truth even when it is not easy."
- Integrity: Young person acts on convictions and stands up for her or his beliefs.
- Responsibility: Young person accepts and takes personal responsibility.
- Restraint: Young person believes it is important not to be sexually active or to use alcohol or other drugs.
- Cultural competence: Young person has knowledge of and comfort with people of different cultural/racial/ethnic backgrounds.
- Interpersonal competence: Young person has empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills.
- Peaceful conflict resolution: Young person seeks to resolve conflict nonviolently.
- Planning and decision making: Young person knows how to plan ahead and make choices.
- Resistance skills: Young person can resist negative peer pressure and dangerous situations.