Resiliency in Action

1. Resiliency in Action
Learning Session 1
Kate Roper, Mass Department of Public Health

2. Why Resiliency?

4. Recap of what came before
• Grant: Mitigating Toxic Stress
• Springfield Core Team
• Action Summit 1:
• Presentation on Toxic Stress, State and City
perspectives
• Group brainstormed risk factors, community
resources, and policy levers, using the images of
boulders, bridges, and cranes (Building Adult Capabilities to
Improve Child Outcomes; Center on the Developing Child)

5. Boulders, Bridges and Cranes

6. Action Summit Part II
• Why part II? The Core Team wasn’t clear on our
direction for the Learning Collaborative or what teams
should look like
• Planning & Design Process with Frank Robinson
• June 16, 2014
• Vision for community
• Icebergs that prevent us from reaching our vision
• Problem voting: 13 top problems
• Solution generating

7. How we came to messaging

9. Another Factor: The Raising of
America
• The Raising of America is an ambitious documentary series
and Public Engagement Campaign that seeks to expand the
debate about what we as a society can—and should—do to
ensure every infant has an equal opportunity childhood.
• Hundreds of Engagement Partners will use The Raising of
America as a tool to change the conversation
• Video segments include:
• The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of our
Nation (56 min) – Watch Preview
• Stressing Out the Poor? Building Community Resilience
• Wounded Places: Confronting Childhood PTSD in America's Shell-
Shocked Cities
• http://www.raisingofamerica.org/

10. How do we come together under
one umbrella to promote
resiliency?

11. Resiliency Pyramid
Child
Family/
Caregivers
Community
(agencies and
organizations)
City, State, National
Policies

12. Videos clips: Safe Havens
• Paper Monsters and Circle Time
• “She’s a Person Here; She Counts”
• “She Was So Angry!”
What messages the staff and others are giving to children,
families, and staff through their words, actions, and
presence?

13. Flow of the Day
• Breakout Groups: Child/Family; Community; Policy
• Reflect on your candles in the heart
• What are the most important messages for your
audience?
• Lunch
• Communication
• Breakouts Part II
• Regroup