One Step Forward: Understanding and promoting resilience for young people in care – One Step Forward Young People’s Group with Claire Stubbs and Angie Hart
The One Step Forward book is a visual guide to resilience, written and illustrated by young people in foster care and care leavers in collaboration with Boingboing, the Brighton & Hove Virtual School for Children in Care and the University of Brighton. Navigate your route towards resilience! Take your time to explore the activities, enjoy the images and take inspiration from the stories.
Check it out here.
“Hopefully you have picked up the booklet because you are a carer who would like to support your child to be more resilient. you may be a practitioner wanting to give carers some tips on how to support their child or young person… or you may be a young person who is interested in resilience, wants to know more about it, what is needed to support your own resilience and also how you can support your friends too!”
“Maybe you think the word ‘resilience’ echoes thoughts of happy, thriving children and young people who manage the ups and downs of life. The way we see it, together, you and your carer or worker, are embarking on an exciting journey, and understanding about resilience can help young people overcome difficult times in their lives and live the life they want to.”
You can also watch a short film about the project behind the book:
One Step Forward Young People’s Group with Stubbs, C., Hart, A. (2015). One Step Forward. Brighton: Boingboing.
A Greek version of the One Step Forward book, co-produced by our colleagues and young people in Crete has also been produced – One Step Forward Young People’s Group with Stefanos Plexousakis, Maria Georgiadi, Elias Kourkoutas, Claire Stubbs and Angie Hart (2015). One Step Forward. Brighton: Boingboing
Ordering
The One Step Forward Guide can be viewed online for free (external link).
The Greek version of the One Step Forward Guide can also be viewed online for free (external link).
You can order printed copies of the English book from us via our online shop. You can also order items from our range of co-produced resilience tools. Please note: our shop is currently unavailable as it is being updated, please check again at a later date. Thank you for your patience.
Watch our workshops: how to do community co-research on health equity
Created as part of the ongoing Community Solutions for Health Equity project that Boingboing Foundation are proudly part of, we are pleased to share recordings of a series of workshops held recently in Blackpool. These workshops are free resources to be taken advantage of by any community members or organisations looking for a beginner’s guide to developing the research skills and knowledge needed to explore health inequalities in coastal areas.
A guide to becoming more eco-friendly in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast
Hi, I’m Maya, and I wanted to say a big thank you to you for reading. These guides were created to help people in Blackpool and the Fylde Coast become more environmentally friendly, without feeling too overwhelmed by climate issues. They were produced as part of the Boingboing Activist in Residence project, which gave me the opportunity to work as an Eco-activist in Residence at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. I decided that I wanted to use this role to make two guides: one for local residents, and another for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals’ Green Champions.
The Boingboing Resilience Framework
The Resilience Framework is a handy table that summarises ‘what works’ when supporting children and young people’s resilience according to the Resilience Research base. The Resilience Framework forms a cornerstone of our research and practice. On this page we have pulled together lots of useful links so you can find out all about the Resilience Framework.
More Than Words: Supporting effective communication with autistic people in health care settings
Over several months our autistic CSRJ and Boingboing colleague, Dr Gemma Williams, worked with a stakeholder group to co-produce some guidelines for communicating well with autistic people in healthcare settings.
Community Report – Climate Change and Mental Health
A full summary of findings from the research project ‘Climate change and mental health; A co-produced study with young people in Blackpool’.
Blackpool Climate Co-research report
This report has been co-produced by the Blackpool Youth Climate Group and research partners from Boingboing and the CRSJ to share their findings about what young people and adults in Blackpool think and feel about climate change.