By Suzanne Hobbs

There are 40 assets that youth need to succeed and become confident and caring adults.

Those assets include things like support, values and responsibility. The Search Institute believes the more assets a young person has, the less likely they are to engage in high risk behaviors like violence and drug use.

Thursday morning, Alisha Passey with the Bonneville Youth Council released the newest survey results. It shows that Bonneville County teens have more assets than the majority of their peers around the country in areas like school motivation, having a positive view of their future and acts of service. Areas of concern are that many youth don't feel safe, don't have positive role models and their parents are not involved in their schooling.

Alisha Passey: "What we'll do from here is kind of look at some of those areas and try to either find programming or investigate why it's the way it is and kind of look at that really just to build those assets."

This 40 Assets Survey is taken every three years. In February 2009, more than seven thousand Bonneville County 7th through 12th graders answered the 160 questions.