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

Why Resiliency?

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)

Boulders, Bridges and Cranes

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

How we came to messaging

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/

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

Resiliency Pyramid

Child

Family/Caregivers

Community (agencies and organizations)

City, State, National Policies

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?

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