Blackpool is undergoing a Resilience Revolution…
Life can be a challenge for lots of different reasons, for some more than others. The University of Brighton’s Centre of Resilience for Social Justice, Boingboing, Blackpool Council, Blackpool HeadStart, and other partners are working together on a Resilience Revolution concept. The focus is using resilience approaches to develop new ways of working, and this is being piloted in a test and learn model right across the whole town of Blackpool to support young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
The Blackpool Resilience Revolution invites anybody who lives, works or volunteers in Blackpool to join in and come together to work out how to build a resilient town to grow up, live, work and thrive in.
We want everyone to have the opportunity to learn more about what they can do to overcome life’s challenges and thrive, for themselves and others (building individual and community resilience) …AND we want to challenge and change the things that make life difficult in the first place (reducing inequalities). We call this beating the odds whilst also changing the odds.
Below you will find some resources that have been co-produced as part of the Resilience Revolution, starting with a short video showing how young people describe the Blackpool Resilience Revolution. We will add new resources as they are created, so please check back regularly.
Resilience Revolution’s Final Research Report 2016-2022
This report presents the research and evaluation of the Resilience Revolution programme (2016-2022).
The Resilience Revolution is an innovative whole town approach to building resilience, made possible by funding from The National Lottery Fund’s HeadStart programme. Funding was available between 2016 and 2022, across 6 areas nationally in the UK with the purpose of testing and learning new ways to support young people’s mental health (ages 10-16).
In Blackpool, the programme took the bold step of developing a vision for the whole town; giving everyone who lived, worked or volunteered in the town the opportunity to get involved. The Resilience Revolution embraced co-production as a way to design and test innovative projects. Coproduction meant a range of people, with different expertise, working together, as equals towards shared goals.
Ready, Set, Resilience
Ready, Set, Resilience is a workbook and supporting guidance created to support young people’s resilience aimed at year 9 students. It uses mixture of activities which support individual resilience (beating the odds) and activities to support changing the odds like activism.
Adam’s Story
Hear Adam’s story about his experience working co-productively with HeadStart Blackpool and the Resilience Revolution.
The value of the friendship model of volunteering
An intergalactic exploration of all the different types of value created through the friendship model of volunteering, as championed by the Resilience Revolution in Blackpool.
ReMiT: Resilient Minds – Mental health toolkit for young people and toolkit for parents and carers
The Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers to support young people’s resilience and mental health. We have co-produced guides for both a Blackpool context and a national context. Find out more here.
Resilience Revolution – Blackpool HeadStart
The Resilience Revolution has delivered an extensive programme of lasting change with disadvantaged young people in the town of Blackpool, through a successful £10.4 million Big Lottery HeadStart funding bid. Their work is based on research into resilience by Boingboing and the Centre of Resilience for Social Justice.
Blackpool ReMiT: Resilient Minds Toolkit – A resilience and mental health guide for parents and carers in the Blackpool area
Blackpool Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers in Blackpool to support their resilience and mental health. You can download both ReMiT guides here as well as take part in the ReMiT feedback survey.
Blackpool ReMiT: Resilient Minds Toolkit – A resilience and mental health guide for young people in the Blackpool area
The Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers to support young people’s resilience and mental health. You can download both ReMiT guides here as well as take part in the ReMiT feedback survey.
ReMiT: Resilient Minds Toolkit – A resilience and mental health guide for parents and carers
The Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers to support their resilience and mental health. You can download both ReMiT guides here designed for a national context as well as take part in the ReMiT feedback survey.
ReMiT: Resilient Minds Toolkit – A resilience and mental health guide for young people
The Resilient Minds Toolkits are co-produced guides written by young people and parents/carers to support young people’s resilience and mental health. You can download both ReMiT guides here as well as take part in the ReMiT feedback survey.
