Camp Fire USA club members
Camp Fire USA club members learning at club

Positive Youth Outcomes

Camp Fire USA programs are built around positive youth development principles. We are guided in our work through the research of Search Institute, an independent nonprofit, which has defined 40 Developmental Assets® that all youth need to become healthy, caring, confident adults.

The 8 Assets Youth Build in Camp Fire USA

    Camp Fire USA builds caring youth

  1. Young person has empathy, sensitivity, and friendship skills.
  2. Young person has knowledge of, and comfort with, people of different cultural/racial/ethnic backgrounds.
  3. Young person places high value on helping the environment and nature.

    4. Camp Fire USA builds confident youth

  4. Young person receives support from three or more non-parent adults.
  5. Young person can resist negative peer pressure and dangerous situations.

    6. Camp Fire USA builds future leaders

  6. Young person seeks to resolve conflict nonviolently.
  7. Young person knows how to plan ahead and make choices.
  8. Young person feels he or she has control over "things that happen to me".