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

A one of a kind resource to guide every aspect of fostering resiliency in children, youth, families and communities.

Contents include: The Foundations of Resiliency;  Resiliency and Schools; Resiliency and Communities; Creating Connections: Mentoring, Support and Peer Programs; Resiliency and Youth
(including Asset) Development; Resiliency in Families; and Resiliency and the Brain.

Each section is filled with easy-to-understand research reports and ways that the research is being applied.  The “must have” book for school, agencies, and community organizations as they meet the challenges of the next decade.

“Bursting with new ideas, exemplars of best practices…and interviews with individuals – leaders and pioneers in the field – who have been doing resiliency work for years. Ahead of the curve.”
– Dennis Saleeby, Ph.D., University of Kansas, Editor of The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice

“This is the bible for our work!”
– Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Happauge NY

“A resource that changes hearts and minds.”
– Brenda Holben, Safe and Drug Free Schools Coordinator, Cherry Creek Schools, CO

About The Author:

Nan Henderson, M.S.W., is President of Resiliency In Action. Her publications on resiliency and wellness, positive youth development, and school and organizational change are used in more than 25 countries and have been translated into Spanish, French, and Russian. She has provided hundreds of presentations and trainings in 45 U.S. states and several foreign countries over the past two decades for a wide variety of audiences and organizations. These groups include Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Upward Bound, Americorps, State Departments of Education in CA, VT, CO, PA, ME, TX, and NH, the Ministry of Education in New Zealand, several Canadian school districts and organizations, and the U.S. Military.

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Education is advocating the adoption of Ms. Henderson’s model in every school in that state, and she has been involved in major resiliency initiatives in New York City Schools and Los Angeles Public Schools.

She has served on the faculty of five colleges/universities; worked as a clinical therapist with youth, adults, and families; and directed citywide and state wide prevention and resiliency programs. She is the author/editor of five books on resiliency, numerous articles, and an on-line newsletter distributed worldwide. She has also been featured as a “resiliency expert” on N.P.R’.s Talk of the Nation.