Asset Builder of the Month
One of Community First’s main goals is to connect youth with their community. Research shows that the more connected youth are to their families, schools, teachers, peers, coaches and community members, the more likely they will be to make healthier life choices.
Asset Builder of the Month is a new program designed to educate the entire community about asset building. The framework of developmental assets® identify crucial relationships, values, self perceptions, opportunities, experiences and personal qualities that children and adolescents need to grow up healthy, caring and responsible.
Each month a local business or organization will display a Community First sponsorship banner and informational board, distribute informational materials and promote one of the 40 Developmental Assets® in their business. Look for the great giveaways that support developmental assets in each sponsoring business or organization. The following sponsors value youth in our community (click on the company name to visit their website):
Hershey’s Ice Cream
Asset #7 - Community Values Youth
Adult buys a waffle cone child receives a kids cone free
February
Asian Sun
Asset #38 - Building Self Esteem
Child has a lesson to learn how to break a board. After breaking board they will receive a uniform and a month of free lessons.
March
Bitters, Bones and Barley
Asset #13 – Caring Neighborhood Community- working on promotion
April
Great Clips
Asset #21 - Achievement Motivation - Working on promotion that focuses around report cards and good grades.
In conjunction with Hudson Community First, Great Clips of Hudson announces an initiative to recognize the many outstanding contributions teachers make in motivating and inspiring kids to achieve great things. Hudson Community First Foundation is working all year long with select Hudson area merchants and organizations to promote a positive image in our young adults, and Great Clips of Hudson is proud to be selected as the April partner to HCF.
Great Clips invites all Hudson area children in grades 2-8 to write, in 150 words or less, how their favorite teacher has “inspired them to achieve” great things; students must drop off their essays to Great Clips of Hudson, located in the Acme Plaza – next to Panera, by April 30th . Every student submitting an entry at Great Clips will be rewarded with a FREE ice cream cone from Hershey’s of Hudson. Students in grades 2-8 will be sent home with additional reminders and information regarding the opportunity the week of April 5th when they return from Spring Break.
Judges will select one winning entry each submitted by students in grades 2-3, 4-5, and 6-8. The teachers the subject of each of the three winning entries will be recognized and honored when Great Clips makes a $250 donation to the Hudson Library and Historical Society in their honor, while the winning students will receive a special prize package from Great Clips.
Great Clips of Hudson is locally owned and operated by Jeff and Janie Lehman, and is proud to support our Hudson Schools, teachers and student body. Great Clips of Hudson is located at 118 W. Streetsboro St., (Acme Plaza – next to Panera; 330-653-3090) and is open M-F 9-9; Sat 9-6; and Sun 10-5.
May
Learned Owl
Asset # 25 Reading for Pleasure - Come in and purchase a book to receive a special book mark
June
Yoga Lounge
Asset #18 Youth Programs - Free child class with paid adult on Mondays 4:15 for the month of June. (Second child half price, new teenagers one week free)
July
PNC
Asset #32 - Planning and Decision making – Working on promotion
August
Taste of Hudson
Asset #9 - Service to Others - Volunteers receive t-shirt and lunch
September
Kibler Dance Academy
Asset #17 - Encouraging Creative Activities - Working on promotion
October
Hattie’s
Asset #4 - Caring neighborhood makes a difference - bring in a donated item and receive a free homemade baked good, details on what the donated item will be, will be determined in a month.
November
Marcelitas
Asset #1- Family Support - Kids eat free with purchase of adult meal, teenagers receive free dessert while eating with parent, on Wednesdays in November.
December
All Brides Beautiful
Asset # 37 - Personal Power - Going to offer makeovers, for natural type look, on a Sunday during the month.
