By Nancy Hafer, M.S., Director, Resource Center for Family-Focused Practice.
It will not surprise anyone given the last 18 months, that we landed on the theme of Resilience for this issue of our newsletter. Over the years, the Wraparound field has, of course, long tapped into resiliency and the building of resilience within our families and our workforce. And, over this pandemic year, I believe we all had “a new experience of resiliency,” digging deep to persevere… and just get through it. In This eNewsleeter issue highlights some key research and thinking around this topic. And as we come out of the pandemic, we have the opportunity to reflect on what got us through.
That’s how Eli, age 15, describes Wraparound.
Serena and her husband Jeff adopted Eli at age two. They participated in many services before Wraparound, but none of them seemed to help Eli.
Emmy Werner and Ruth Smith, Resiliency research pioneers, define Resilience as “In the context of exposure to significant adversity, whether psychological, environmental or both, resilience is both the capacity of individuals to navigate their way to health-sustaining resources, including opportunities to experience feelings of wellbeing, and a condition of the individual’s family, community and culture to provide these health resources and experience in culturally meaningful ways" (Ungar, 2008).
How my personal experience became an opportunity to observe, validate, educate and reduce disparities within our communities
By Danielle Martinez, Parent Partner, San Diego Center for Children, Wrap Works
When my son was young and in the process of being diagnosed, I was trying to figure out what to do to help my son and keep him in public school. I had questions like “What does this diagnosis mean? And will he be ok?”
