This practitioner research study, by Claire Stubbs, combines her support work with young people who have experienced challenging times and her interest in resilience and the Resilience Framework. By examining the mechanisms that were important to promote resilience amongst young men who were offending, the study took the Resilience Framework and applied it to the data collected on the young men’s experiences. The findings supported the principle behind the Resilience Framework, the importance of both social and individual mechanisms working together to promote better odds for young people. Young men involved in the study produced their own messages from the study. You can read the newspaper-style leaflet, Changing Lanes – Promoting resilience to re-offending, which they’ve produced detailing how to support resilient moves for at risk young people.
Resilience to re-offending: young men overcoming adversity
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Can resilience be measured?
Can resilience be measured? Finding adequate and good ways of measuring is important because we would like to track the effectiveness of resilient building approaches in daily practice, to make sure that people benefit from our interventions, check the quality of our work and continue developing our interventions.
Can kinship carers benefit from learning about resilience?
This is a Collaborative Action Research project using Photo-elicitation to represent kinship carers experiences of trying to use Resilient Therapy and individual interviews with children to find out what helps them through difficult times.
The Imagine Programme
The Imagine Programme brings together different research projects working across universities and their local communities. Using the new knowledge we gather, we are imagining how communities might be different. We are researching, and experimenting with different forms of community-building that ignite imagination about the future and help to build resilience.
