Are you struggling to measure young people’s success when success seems to be moving very slowly? Youth workers across Wisconsin were also struggling when it came to tracking success experienced by teens who had been sex trafficked or identified as high risk. Youth workers would shut down in frustration, and teams would go dormant when youth weren’t ready for big changes in their lives. A partnership between the Milwaukee Child Advocacy Center and a survivor consultant created a tool to break this cycle with funding and support from the Wisconsin Department of Child and Families. Finding Your Strengths! is informed by a literature review, listening sessions with youth-serving professionals, community members with lived experience, and youth advisory to shape, and reshape, the tool in a year-long process. The tool is publicly available for download by all. Youth and their worker or other adult support use the tool together to identify non-traditional strengths as a starting point to move forward. This offers a pathway to reduce missed opportunities to recognize and celebrate youth insights, strengths, and resilience. This workshop will also provide key insights from a 2024 evaluation to further support the positive impact of incorporating Finding Your Strengths! into your practice with young people. With the assistance of a community-based evaluator, 27 youth-serving professionals across the state completed pre- and post-interviews, as well as survey responses over the course of a six-week evaluation period. Participants included professionals in youth justice, child welfare, victim advocacy, CSEC-specific program staff, and other community-based providers. The final evaluation report revealed that the worksheet helped with goal setting, safety planning, and leveled-up rapport building with both youth who had been trafficked as well as youth with a range of risk levels. The presenters will share their experience working with an evaluator, expand on the methodology, evaluation findings, and include narratives from the participant interviews.