Over the past 10 years, we as youth workers and educators have been striving to: 1) be strength-based in our approach to children and youth, 2) focus on increasing the resilience of children and youth, and 3) use the language of protective factors as a common-sense means to measure improvement and motivate all to share in the responsibility for raising youth. In this workshop we review the research that supports the framework, the political and social ramifications of the work, and provide new insights into how resilience can be taught and how it can be caught. You will learn: The psychological background to resiliency The history of the resiliency research To consider several questions which relate to the field of Integrative Youth Development™ and resilience.
