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Building Resilience for Children in Care

Building Resilience for Children in Care. Jennifer Scholes , M.A. scholesj@pdx.edu Child Welfare Partnership Portland State University. Your attention please:.

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Building Resilience for Children in Care

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  1. Building Resiliencefor Children in Care Jennifer Scholes, M.A. scholesj@pdx.edu Child Welfare Partnership Portland State University

  2. Your attention please: This training is designed for individuals caring for children in the custody of the State of Oregon, adoptive parents, and guardians of children. It is based on the policies and procedures of the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Program. If you are certified by another agency, please consult your agency’s policies to ensure compliance.

  3. What is Resilience? • The ability to bounce back from predictable stressors (AKA magazine definition) • The ability to bounce back from, and successfully overcome risks and adversity

  4. The Myth of Child Resilience • Do children spontaneously bounce back?

  5. Learning ObjectivesDefine resilience within the context of child welfare Identify why some children are more resilient than others Become familiar with strategies for building resilience in children

  6. Acknowledgement toNan Henderson, MSWResiliency in Action Training & PublicationsandThe International Resilience Project

  7. When resiliency isn’t built

  8. Resiliency Extremes • “No blood on the carpet” • Long-term neglect and trauma • Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

  9. Are we born with resilience?

  10. How to Build ResilienceUniversal ability to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity.Assess strengthsSelect areas in which to build

  11. Resiliency Wheel

  12. Trauma and ResilienceYoung childrenYouth

  13. Resilience and KauaiWerner and Smith resiliency study

  14. Protective Factors……facilitate resiliency

  15. “There was indeed exposure to and experience of risk..countered by exposure to and experience of protection.” Richard Jessor, U of Colorado

  16. Another approach I have _______________ I am ________________ I can ________________

  17. Building Resilience is a Process“Kids can walk around trouble, if there is some place to walk to, and someone to walk with.”Tito, ex-gang member

  18. Those who’ve built resilience say • Resilience is a process of connectedness, of linking to people, to interests and to life itself.

  19. Adding it all up…Resilience is a web of meaningful, lasting, healthy connections.

  20. Thank You…and remember, “Blessed are the flexible for they shall not get bent out of shape.”

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