WestEd In the News/Awards

Type: In the News
Status: Live, 08/10/2007 12:00:00
Article Title: The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience
WestEd Title: Bonnie Benard Publishes Chapter in Public Health Text
URL: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/PreventionIsPrimary.html
Source: American Public Health Association & Prevention Institute
Pub Date: July 2007
Sort Date: 07/31/2007
Date Posted: 08/10/2007
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Summary:
Bonnie Benard, author of Resiliency: What We Have Learned, published a chapter in a new public health textbook, Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well Being. Benard's chapter, "The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience," provides a detailed comparative analysis of the benefits of resilience approaches over risk-based, deficit approaches to public health. The book was co-published by the American Public Health Association and the Prevention Institute.
Program: Health & Human Development Program
Service: Promoting Resilience and Youth Development in School Communities
Staff: Bonnie Benard