Arts and Community Work for Promoting Resilience

Promoting Resilience: Inner-city-youth Involvement in Community-serving Leisure

of Papers Presented at the Eleventh Canadian Congress on Leisure Research

Promoting Professional Resilience

School Health: an essential strategy in promoting community resilience and preparedness for natural disasters

BACKGROUND The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction recommended the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which aims to achieve substantial risk reduction and to avoid various disaster-associated losses, including human lives and livelihoods, based on the lessons from the implementation of the Hyogo framework. However, the recommendations ...

Promoting conservation through the arts: outreach for hearts and minds.

Emotions play a central role in the decisions we make. For example, we often make poor investment choices because we are driven by our emotions rather than rational judgment (Tversky & Kahneman 1991). On the positive side, when emotional input is added to learning experiences, it makes them more memorable and exciting. The brain deems the information more important and enhances memory of the ev...

Promoting Resilience in Children and Youth

Preventive interventions focus on reducing risk and promoting protective factors in the child as well as their cultural ecologies (family, classroom, school, peer groups, neighborhood, etc). By improving competencies in both the child and their contexts many of these interventions promote resilience. Although there are now a substantial number of preventive interventions that reduce problem beh...