- Goals of the Professional Development Workshops
- Four independent workshops are designed to help you:
- Create more supportive and asset-rich environments,
- Connect youth to their school communities,
- Engage youth in learning, and
- Reduce youth involvement in substance use, violence, and other risk behaviors.
You will be shown a process for using data from the Resilience and Youth Development Module of the Healthy Kids Survey to improve your school community through data-driven decision-making.
- Who Should Attend
- School board members and district, county, and site administrators
- Teachers, counselors, prevention specialists, health coordinators, and student assistance teams
- Preschool providers
- Public health providers, mental health providers, alcohol & drug program providers
- Law enforcement
- After-school program staff and staff of community-based organizations
- Schools that have administered the Healthy Kids Survey
- Format of the Workshops
- The four independent workshops can each be presented in three formats: 1) as a half-day presentation, 2) as a one-day introduction and interactive session, or 3) as a more comprehensive two-day workshop. Additional follow-up days are available.
- What You Learn
- Workshop 1 — From Risk to Resilience: Principles and Strategies of Youth Development.
Participants will learn the research base for resilience and youth development approaches to prevention, education, and human services; strategies that promote developmental assets critical to healthy development and learning; and sources of support that sustain resilience practices.
- Workshop 2 — Listening to Youth: Using Youth Assets Data for School Community Improvement.
Participants will learn to interpret and use their local Resilience & Youth Development Module data in school community planning; facilitate student focus groups as a process for increasing student involvement in school community improvement efforts; and create a research-based action plan based on student and staff recommendations.
- Workshop 3 — Closing the Achievement Gap by Fostering Resilience and Youth Development.
Participants will learn the relationship between resilience and school success; strategies for increasing school connectedness and engaging the intrinsic motivation of students, especially those that schools have traditionally been unsuccessful in reaching; and how to create school culture that supports resilience in both students and staff.
- Workshop 4 — "You Matter!" Promoting Resilience and Youth Development in Your After-School Program.
Participants will learn the principles of youth development and the major messages of resilience research; the power of caring relationships, high/positive expectations, and opportunities for participation and contribution; and to develop strengths-based approaches in their after-school programs.
- Who Facilitates Your Learning
- For over twenty years, Bonnie Benard has brought the concept of resilience to the attention of national and international audiences. She is the author of Fostering Resiliency in Kids, which is credited with introducing resiliency theory and application to the fields of prevention and education, and the follow-up volume, Resiliency: What We Have Learned. She leads the workshops with Carol Burgoa and other WestEd consultants who have deep experience working in the areas of resilience and youth development in schools and youth-serving agencies.
- What the Research Says
- A growing body of research in education and the behavioral sciences has clearly identified the qualities of families, schools, communities, and programs that produce good outcomes in young people, including both academic success and healthy development. The challenge for all youth-serving institutions, and especially for schools, is to recognize that youth development, health-risk behavior prevention, and academic success are inextricably tied, and that schools actually do have the power to provide youth with the supports and opportunities they need to succeed.
- What Resources Support Your Learning
- Participants receive a manual containing supportive materials, a list of useful resources, a CD-ROM of workshop slides, and Resiliency: What We Have Learned.
- Cost
- Half-day presentations or keynotes are $1,700. An interactive workshop with two facilitators is $3,000 for one day or $5,000 for two days. Travel time and expenses are not included.
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"Thank you so much for a fantastic workshop! I've been getting e-mails from folks who had a great experience. Best of all, you have educated and inspired district and school leaders to embrace resiliency and carry this work further."
-Workshop Participant
"[As a teacher, I believe] they should have this training (From Risk to Resilience) at every school in America and make it a college requirement for all teachers."
-Workshop Participant
Contact Information
Bonnie Benard at 510.302.4208 or
bbenard@wested.org
Related Program(s):
Health & Human Development Program
Related Project(s):
California Healthy Kids Survey
Related FeaturesResiliency: Superhuman Strength or Normal Human Capacity?
Related Resources
Resiliency: What We Have Learned
Fostering Resiliency in Kids
Ensuring That No Child Is Left Behind: How Are Student Health Risks & Resilience Related to the Academic Progress of Schools?
Healthy Kids Resilience Module (HKRM)
Healthy Kids Survey (HKS)
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