Every year I purchase a Lakota calendar that has a mix of great art and great information about various aspects of Lakota life, language, spirituality, and cultural values.  When I turned the calendar to February, I discovered this month’s theme is “selflessness.”  The next paragraph is what is written on the calendar for February.

Twenty-five years ago, as a very excited new social worker, I had the opportunity to work with a collaborative program in Worthington MN, funded by the corrections program and housed within the elementary and middle schools.  We built a teen peer mentoring program based on tools from the Search institute’s Developmental Assets Survey.