Resiliency in Action: Practical Ideas for Overcoming Risks and Building Strengths in Youth, Families, & Communities - Softcover

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Nan Henderson, M.S.W., is an internationally recognized author, trainer, and consultant on fostering human resiliency in youth, adults, families, and organizations. Her publications on this subject are used in more than 25 countries and have been translated into Spanish and Russian. read by thousands worldwide. She is co-founder and President of Resiliency In Action, Inc., a training organization in Southern California.

Ms. Henderson designed "The Resiliency Training Program" Training of Trainers a decade ago, at the request of the Colorado Department of Education. She has trained and consulted in 43 U.S. States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Organizations she has worked for include Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Upward Bound; the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission; the New Zealand Ministry of Education; Job Corps; Americorps: and State Departments of Education in California, Vermont, Colorado, Maine, Texas, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. She has also been a trainer for hundreds of school districts, and social service and community agencies.

In 2004, she provided training for New Zealand's national federation of children's health camps as well as a presentation for national child and youth welfare officials, which was introduced by the New Zealand Minister of Child Welfare. "Resiliency" became the national foundation of services for children and youth after Ms. Henderson's trainings there.

Ms. Henderson has served on the faculty of five colleges/universities; worked as a clinical therapist with youth, adults, and families in agencies and schools; and directed citywide, statewide, and school districtwide youth risk behavior prevention and resiliency implementation programs.

She is the author/editor of five books, including "Resiliency In Schools: Making It Happen for Students and Educators," published by Corwin Press-one of its all-time best-selling books. Her other books include "Resiliency In Action: Practical Ideas for Overcoming Risks and Building Strengths in Youth, Families, and Communities"; "Mentoring for Resiliency: Setting Up Programs to Move Youth from 'Stressed to Success'"; and "Schoolwide Approaches for Fostering Resiliency," all published by Resiliency In Action.

Her articles have appeared in several national publications, including "Education Digest"; "Hope Magazine"; "Principal Magazine"; and "Prevention Researcher". She was the featured resiliency expert on National Public Radio's July 16, 2002 "Talk of the Nation" program on resiliency.

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Help kids, families, schools, and communities bounce back from risk and adversity. This book shows you how to foster their resiliency.

Resiliency...is the ability to spring back from and successfully adapt to adversity. An increasing body of research from the fields of psychology, psychiatry, sociology, social work, and education is showing that the majority of children, youth, and adults can bounce back and experience life success and that resiliency is an innate self-righting and transcending ability within people, organizations, and communities.

This book is filled with information you need to know to move your family, your school, your community, and children and youth you work with from risk to resiliency. It includes: * Research findings on how individuals bounce back, with an emphasis on practical application. *Interviews and advice from some of the leading researchers. *How families, schools, and communities are using the resiliency information to make positive changes. *Stories of how youth who have been gang involved, drug involved, pregnant, or failing school have bounced back. *The connection between risk research, asset development, and the resiliency framework. *Many other resources.