Main description:

This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between community resilience and family resilience, identifying contributing factors on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level. Scholars and practitioners focus on how community-level policies and programs facilitate the distribution of resources, assets, and opportunities that provide valuable assistance to families who are struggling or in crisis due to economic hardship, mental illness, and the effects of natural and human made disasters. Additionally, representatives of local government and community agencies on the "front lines" of developing policies and programs to assist families provide valuable context for understanding the ways communities provide environments that encourage and nurture family resilience.
Among the topics covered:

How cities promote resilience from a public health perspective

Family resilience following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Resilience in women from trauma and addiction

Trauma-sensitive schooling for elementary-age students

Developing family resilience through community based missions

Resilience and the Community will be of interest to policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to facilitate the development of evidence-based resilience practices, programs, and/or policies for those working with families at risk.

Contents:

I. Relationships Between Community and Family Resilience.- Preface.- Community Context and Resilient Families.- Building and Strengthening Communities: What Works? What Doesn't?.- How Do Cities Think About Resilience?.- Family Resilience Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Preliminary Evidence from the RCYC Study.- Public Health and Community and Family Resilience.- II. Building Community and Family Resilience Through Policy and Programming.- Resilience in Women from Trauma and Addiction: Development of Life Skills Through Structured Recovery Programs.- A Journey to Becoming a Trauma-Sensitive School and Supporting Resilience in Elementary-Age Students.- Navigating the Waters of Early Childhood Child Care Policy.- Resiliency for All: Not Forgetting the Forgotten.- A Layman's Passion for and Experience with Developing Family Resilience Through Community Based Missions. The Use and Value of 'Sweat Equity': Three Examples.