TOPIC: Resilience/Protective Factors

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Protective Factors/Resiliency

Newsletters
• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support. (Fall, '97)
• Enabling Learning in the Classroom: A Primary Mental Health Concern (Spring '98)
• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports (Spring, '07)
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers. (Fall, '99)

Information Resources
• About Teacher Mental Health
• About Resilience and Schools
• About Positive Psychology
• About Promoting Youth Development in Schools
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• Barriers, Buffers, & Youth Development
• Cross-Age Peer Mentorship Programs in Schools
• Empathy, Compassion, and Addressing Student Misbehavior
• More About Risk and Resilience
• Promoting Staff Well-being and Preventing Burnout as Schools Re-open
• Self-Concept and School Performance
• Service-learning and Community Service Clubs in Schools
• Service Learning in Schools
• Service learning Can Enhance Social Emotional Development
• Sex Education and Social-Emotional Development
• Strengthening Health Care for Adolescents
• A Student-initiated, Student-run, and Student-funded Center for Retaining Underrepresented Minority University Students

Technical Aid Packets
• After-School Programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, Older Students)
• Volunteers to Help Teachers and School Address Barriers to Learning
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Practice Notes
• About Motivation
• About Student Voice and Participation
• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
• Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Problems at School
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Youth Participation: Making It Real

Guides to Practice
• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Center Briefs
• Early Development and School Readiness from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers to Learning (November, 2001)

Introductory Packets
• Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers

Continuing Education Modules
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools