Fostering Resilience for Children in Adversity: A guide to whole child school-community approaches
Education and resilience have a reciprocal relationship: education promotes children’s resilience, and resilient children are more likely to attend school.
University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child has released a guidebook titled Fostering Resilience for Children in Adversity: A guide to whole child school-community approaches. The guidebook presents evidence for adopting a school-community approach to fostering resilience for children living in poverty and other forms of adversity.
Designed for practitioners and educators, the guide shares robust, global examples of interventions implemented at the home, school and community levels that take a holistic approach to their programming and concludes with key considerations for research and learning agendas.
Fostering Resilience for Children in Adversity offers guidance on what resilience is and how practitioners can foster and measure resilience in low-resource and/or poverty contexts. By incorporating research on resilience risk and protective factors at all stages of early childhood and adolescent development, the guide will ultimately help to inform practitioners’ and educators’ design and measurement of whole child development programming.