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.
Resilience Framework Co-produced with Children in Blackpool
The Resilience Framework for Primary School children was co-produced by the Resilience Committee at Marton Primary School, Blackpool. The Marton Primary School children learned some valuable resilience and technological skills during the process, which involved rewording some of the items in a more meaningful way for the children, and we think it looks fab! Also available in Danish, German and Polish.
Blackpool Co-produced Family Resilience Framework
A group of parents and carers from Blackpool, known as the ‘Parents of the Revolution’, have co-produced a family version of the Resilience Framework as part of Blackpool’s town-wide Resilience Revolution. You can also download a one-page version that just contains the Framework or a 2-page version with a short description and some suggestions.
Family Framework Co-produced with Newport Mind
The Family Resilience Framework was designed to support members of the wider family (parents, siblings, carers etc.) and was developed by Rhian Adams, Tiffany Bales, Laura Brown and Sarah Henderson from Newport Mind, with the support of the participants of the Newport Mind Community of Practice. Also available in Italian, Portugese and Spanish.
Resilience Framework for Adults
The Resilience Framework for Adults applies ideas from the resilience evidence base to adult mental health. The adult Framework was developed as part of Josh Cameron’s PhD research into the work-related needs and experiences of people recovering from mental health problems. Also available in French and German.
Supporting children and young people’s mental health – A guide for schools
Supporting children and young people’s mental health: A guide for schools using a resilience based approach, and Supporting children and young people’s mental health during Covid-19 pandemic: A supplementary section.
Resilience Framework for Children and Young People – Black and White
This is the classic Resilience Framework for children and young people produced in black and white in case you, or the young people you support, prefer to colour code it yourselves, or don’t have access to a colour printer. The Resilience Framework sets out 42 resilient moves that can be made to support children and young people’s resilience.
