Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i2G2KkI22627; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:20:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:20:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <15c.2f8fe078.2d87bd79@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2708] Resiliency Research X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Status: O Content-Length: 2503 Lines: 47 Colleagues: I know that some of you are working with teen parents, children who have had children, as they say. In one of the programs, in which I work, we identified every one of the factors mentioned below in the population of young adults. They have not been as resilient as the young people in these research studies, and neither high school curricula nor traditional adult education has appealed to their sense of need and longing. What we are trying is a curriculum, which we call Young Adult Education, based on themes established with EFF Standards and goals/shared priorities of these young moms. We hope to report that this approach demonstrates the caring relationships, high expectations, and opportunities to participate and contribute cited as crucial in this study. All the Best, Meta Potts, Moderator 4-EFF Glen Allen, VA mwpotts2001@aol.com RESILIENCY RESEARCH: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? from the PEN Weekly Newsblast for 3/12/04 Research studies over the past decade and more substantiate the impact of policies and practices that recognize and support young people’s innate drive -- no matter what their challenges -- for self-righting, normal human development. An understanding of this "developmental wisdom," or resiliency, must be integrated into adults’ vision for the youth they work with and communicated to young people themselves, argues Bonnie Benard in "Resiliency: What We Have Learned." Benard cites hundreds of studies that have found that "for just about any population of children that research has found to be at greater risk than normal for later problems -- children who experience divorce, have attention deficit disorder, suffer developmental delays, become delinquent, run away, were placed in foster care, were born to teen mothers, were members of gangs, were sexually abused, had substance-abusing or mentally ill families, and grew up in poverty – more of them make it than do not. In most studies, the figure seems to average 70 to 75 percent." What appears to be crucial for these young people are caring relationships, high expectations, and opportunities to participate and contribute, whether in their families, schools, or communities. In school settings, Benard reports, "Problem behaviors in youth declined more the longer students were in nurturing schools and increased more the longer they were in non-nurturing schools." Several chapters of this valuable book are available online at: http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs/712
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