Building Blocks of Resilience (C1)
- Learn about external and internal assets identified by the Search Institute as keys to supporting healthy development in children and adolescents.
- Hear how one UMA member is putting this research into practice and measuring and monitoring skills and social resources to improve young people’s opportunities to succeed.
- Hear about a successful community effort to support at-risk youth and discuss how other United Methodist ministries might partner to create or replicate this model to serve people in their communities.
FACULTY:
John Shadowens, President and CEO, United Methodist Children’s Home, Mt. Vernon, IL
Rev. Hal Garman, Founder, Gaithersburg Beloved Community Initiative, Gaithersburg, MD