Presentation by Karin Tengnäs, Child Protection Advisor, Save the Children Denmark, at workshop “Putting the 'social' back into young people's psychosocial wellbeing, care and support”, hosted by ODI and the University of Reading, London, 22 November 2016.

1. Stronger Together
The Children’s & Youth Resilience Programmes
Save the Children Denmark
Public event: A holistic approach to young people’s
psychosocial wellbeing, London, 22.11.2016

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Download the manual here
The Children’s Resilience Programme (2012)

3. 3 The Youth Resilience Programme (2015)
Download the manuals here

4. 4 Ecological model Laws and policies
(system)
Community support
Extended family,
friends, etc.
Parents and
caregivers
Children,
adolescents
and youth
Meetings with parents/
caregivers
Workshops with groups
of children and youth
Strengthen referral and
protection mechanisms
Continuous capacity
building of staff and
facilitators
Link to e.g. CRG and
advocacy.

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Active and
meaningful
participation

7. 7 Resilience

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Resilience is about…
 …the ability to navigate during periods of hardship,
drawing on psychological, social, cultural and
physical resources.
 …the ability to negotiate resources in a meaningful
way – to the advantage of the person or the group.
(Michael Ungar, the Resilience Research Center -
http://resilienceresearch.org/)

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• Progressive
• Structure and repetition
• Social relations in focus
• Joyfulness and creativeness
• Facilitator is the role model
– the method of facilitation is
as important as the activity
itself.
Five main principles

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 FUN
 SAFE
 INCLUSIVE

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13. VOICE
SOCIETYCHOICES
FULL
POTENTIAL
equitable
SCI’s
Youth
Vision in
MEE

14. Thank you 
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