Thrive Foundation is in partnership with Dr. Richard Lerner at Tufts University’s Institute for Applied Research on Youth Development, to develop a set of measurements that reflect progress on individual indicators of thriving and goal management skills. These measurements— rubrics—will be piloted by youth-serving organizations and scientifically validated in 2010. Final products will be available by mid-2011.

Thrive Foundation supports and measures awareness of thriving concepts in youth, and the caring adults around them, as a first stage towards positive behavior change. With the proposed rubrics, Thrive will track youth impact— measurable improvement of thriving youth trajectories—in programs across the United States.