Community asset mapping is one approach to community assessment. According to Kretzmann and McKnight (1993), discovering the assets, capacities, and resources embedded in a community leads people to take responsibility for and ownership of rebuilding and renewing their community. Community mapping is a tool for consideration by family and consumer sciences (FCS) professionals. It also allows teachers and students to become intimately familiar with the physical characteristics of their neighborhood and to develop an understanding of the personality and flavor of the school community. In this article, the authors discuss the concept and process of community mapping which was included in a workshop sponsored by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Urban Studies graduate program as part of the Summer Urban Institute (O'Sullivan, 2001). Faculty in the Department of Human Ecology decided to determine whether community mapping might contribute to the curricula. Incorporating community mapping into Child and Family Studies, Nutrition, and Interior Design would help students increase awareness of discipline-related concerns within their own communities. Community mapping also was implemented in Family Resource Management and Community Nutrition courses, and was projected for use in History of American Domestic Architecture. Community mapping could become a teaching technique in FCS courses. The shared projects provided a beneficial and effective means to teach Family Resource Management and Community Nutrition students about the need for assessment prior to planning interventions for a community. Students stated that as they became aware of resources available and potential barriers, they were more effective in the community. Indeed, community mapping is an effective teaching tool because it: (a) supplies information about a community; (b) encourages use of critical thinking skills; (c) increases student awareness of the need to understand communities; and (c) identifies resources available within a community. Additionally, the data generated from community mapping becomes a resource to the communities, benefiting both the university and the community.