Resilience

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• The power or ability to return to the original form/position after being bent compressed, or stretched.
• “Resilience is a universal capacity which allows a person, group or community to prevent, minimize or overcome the damaging effects of adversity”(Edith Grothbeg)
• The human capacity to face, overcome and be strengthened by or even transformed by the adversities of life and the ability to bounce back after stressful and potentially traumatizing events.
• A community that takes intentional action to enhance the personal and collective capacity of citizens and institutions to influence the course of social and economic change(UNDP)

• Directs our attention to the fact that all children have assets and strengths.
• We are challenged to fully appreciate the depth of these strengths and to design interventions that tap into, build on, and further augment them.
• Many times we are so focused on the problems, deficits, and trauma
• People have to know that resilience overshadows the fact that children, families, and communities have strengths and competencies.
• After all, being “free” of “problems” is not the same as being capable and healthy to overcome challenges.

• Resilience can be found at both levels of the individual and the community.
• Resilience is typically made of ordinary processes and not something extraordinary or “magic” it is reachable goal.
• Resilience is the outcome of a negotiation process between the individual and his or her environment in order to maintain a healthy self definition.
• Resilience can be nurtured in children through family and community support.
• Children experiencing similar situations can show different levels of resilience.

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• A strong sense of community & open relationships between people and good communication.
• Leadership is shared & genuinely represent the people, and both men and women are able to exercise leadership functions.
• Existence of supportive structures: schools and pre-schools, health services, community groups, and religious organizations.
• There is a commitment to community development.
• Community members take responsibility and action to enhance community life.
• Problems: the effect of conflict and displacement are widely acknowledged and shared.
• They do not remain individual problems but there is a collective responses.
• People see themselves as resourceful and having the potential to meet the needs not relying on external resources only when necessary.

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