Participants receive an overview of key resiliency concepts with an emphasis on five core resiliency skills. These skills serve as a modern-day “tool kit” to equip teachers and students to adapt and roll with the changes of life.
Included are specific strategies to build connections in our challenging Covid 19 world. Participants will also explore the necessary behaviors, attitudes, goals, and sense of purpose necessary to build a more resilient future.
RESILIENCY PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS
Resilient Horizons delivers informational and training programs that instill resiliency skills in youth. We tailor our programs for all ages to meet the needs of your organization, regardless of setting – this includes schools, faith facilities, and youth gathering spots.
We offer in-person or tele-presentations as needed. As part of our training programs, we provide suggested readings, instructional videos, and resiliency themed products.
Resilient Horizons offers two versions of our custom program: Roll With The Changes.
Elementary School Program: targets students in grades 2-5 and uses developmentally appropriate media such as magic, music, storytelling, and puppetry to convey our five core resiliency skills.
Middle School Program: adapted to a more mature audience and includes the use of illusion, music, and real-world examples of resiliency to impart our message in an engaging format.
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR BOOKS & OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES
Coming soon from Greenleaf Book Group in 2021: Into the Vortex . . . A Tale of Resiliency
This engaging adventure novel is an exciting new option for students, teachers, parents, and mental health professionals looking for books that support social and emotional learning for today’s youth.
Into the Vortex: A Tale of Resiliency aims to impart a resiliency mindset to students in grades 6-9 via an adventure novel about a 12-year-old’s underwater entrapment in a cavern. This is the age when thoughts of self-harm can enter the minds of our youth.
The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action | Christian Moore
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand
Resilience: Turning Your Setback into a Comeback | Kyle Wilson
Dove | Robin L. Graham
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) | Dan Santat
The Hugging Tree: A Story About Resilience | Jill Neimark
Resilience: A Book to Encourage Resilience, Persistence and to Help Children Bounce Back from Challenges and Adversity | Jayneen Sanders
Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid | Wendy L. Moss
The Hurt | Teddi Doleski
The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper
The Survival Guide for Kids With Behavior Challenges: How to Make Good Choices and Stay Out of Trouble | Thomas McIntyre, Ph.D.
Parents
Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual | Dennis Prager
Life Is Good: The Book | Bert Jacobs
Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings | Kenneth R. Ginsberg MD MSEd FAAP
Resilience Parenting: Raising Resilient Children in an Era of Detachment and Dependence | Chris Santillo and Holly Santillo
Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness | Rick Hanson Ph.D and Forrest Hanson
Teach Resilience: Raising Kids Who Can Launch | Deborah Gilboa MD
Educators
Building Resiliency A Non-Thematic Small-Group Approach, Grades 3 – 7 | Karen Griffith
Creative Small Groups: Ready-to-Use Lessons for Grades K-5 | Karen Griffith
The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action | Christian Moore
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom | Kristin Souers and Pete Hall
Building resilient students: Integrating Resilience into What You Already Know and Do | Katherine Thomsen
Resilient classrooms: Creating Healthy Environments for Learning |Beth Doll, Katherine Brehm, and Steven Zucker
WhyTry is a powerful curriculum for teaching resiliency skills to youth using pictures, media, music, journals, and more. Webinars, podcasts, and excellent training materials are available.
Resiliency in Action provides resources on books and pamphlets, a resiliency blog, training, articles, and free newsletters. A resiliency quiz is also available. Nan Henderson, M.S.W. president of Resiliency in Action and author of Resiliency in Action.
Search Institute provides excellent information related to how and what of helping youth and families succeed in today’s world. Numerous free downloads are available to help foster resiliency in youth.
The American Psychological Association provides a roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations and emerging even stronger than before.
Bounce Back, A Game That Teaches Resiliency Skills
Talking, Feeling, and Doing Game plus the Stop, Relax, and Think Board Game. Two of the most popular games to teach resiliency and self-regulation. Children ages 6-12.
Through our website you are able to link to other websites – each website is independently operated and is responsible for the information contained on their site. Resilient Horizons does not endorse everything contained on the individual sites, but we hope the information will be useful.
Kay Warren provides a gold mine of free mental health resources that are well organized and very informative. Click here for free downloads on a variety of mental health subjects including ADHD, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Substance Abuse.
Mental Health First Aid is a skills-based training course that teaches participants about mental health and substance-use issues.
The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) provides information about a variety of mental health issues and how school psychologists can help students overcome these barriers to learning and achievement.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides a 6-hour online interactive course that puts the participant in the role of a provider in a post-disaster scene
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“When you bend in the wind but don’t break in the storm.”
“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve really been planted.”
“Hope is a good thing.
Maybe the best of all things.”
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“Once you choose HOPE, anything is possible!”
Hold On Pain Ends
“The river moves, but it follows a path.
When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way.
Hard work, but that’s nature.”
“Hope is seeing light in spite of being surrounded by darkness.”
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life.”
“When life flips you over . . .
Roll with the Changes!”
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up, the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”