The document summarizes a community needs assessment presented by several individuals on the patterns of resilience among families in an adopted neighborhood. It discusses resilience theory and the resilience model for family stress, adjustment, and adaptation. The model includes five propositions describing how stressors, strengths, resources, positive appraisal, and coping efforts relate to family adaptation. Nine aspects of resilient families dealing with chronic illness are also identified, such as balancing family needs, maintaining clear boundaries, developing communication, attributing positive meanings, and maintaining social support.

1. Community needs assessment
PATTERNS OF RESILIENCE AMONG
FAMILIES IN THE ADOPTED BARANGAY
OF COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Presented By:
Neil Kenneth Agda Angelique Magsumbol
Cherry Lyn Brusola Maria Elizabeth Guevarra
Danielle Mae Quiazon Price Americ Santos

2. Resilience Theory
Family adaptation is described in the Resiliency
Model for Family Stress, Adjustment, and
Adaptation as the "outcome of the family's efforts
over time to bring a fit at two levels: the
individual to family, and the family to community.
This process ranges on a continuum from optimal
bonadaptation to maladaptation " ( McCubbin,
1993, p. 50).

3. There were four assumptions within the original family
stress model developed by Rueben Hill in 1949
(Friedman, 1998). These were:
Unexpected or unplanned events are usually perceived
as stressful
Events within the families, such as serious illness, and
defined as stressful, are more disruptive than stressors
that occur outside the family, such as war, flood, or
depression
Lack of previous experience with stressor events
leads to increased perceptions of stress.
Ambiguous stressor events are more stressful
than non-ambiguous events (Friedman, 1998, p.
88).

4. McCubbin and McCubbin expanded on this original family stress model
and created the Resiliency Model of Stress, Adjustment, and
Adaptation in 1989 (Freidman, 1998; McCubbin & McCubbin, 1993).
The expanded model included five propositions that described
relationships within the model itself. These propositions describe that
in family crisis:
The pileup of family demands
(stressors, strains, transitions) is related to family
adaptation, and this is a negative relationship.
Family typologies based on specific strengths of the family
system (cohesion, adaptability, family hardiness, family time and
routines) are related to family adaptation, and this is a positive
relationship.
The family resources are related to family
adaptation, and this is a positive relationship.
The family's positive appraisal of the situation is related to family
adaptation, and this is a positive relationship.

5. Nine aspects of resilient families dealing with a
chronic illness situation have been identified.
These include:
1. Balancing the illness with other family needs
2. Maintaining clear family boundaries
3. Developing communication competence
4. Attributing positive meanings to the situation
5. Maintaining family flexibility
6. Maintaining a commitment to the family as a unit,
7. Engaging in active coping efforts,
8. Maintaining social integration
9. Developing collaborative relationships with
professionals (Patterson, 1991).

6. The Resilience Model