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Building Resilience in the Face of Emerging Threats to Child and Youth Well-Being: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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... Carmen The first step in understanding how to build youth Valdez, University of Texas at Austin, noted that while resilience is to understand who the current youth immigrant and nonimmigrant youth alike experience population is. Lynn Olson, American Academy of poverty, discrimination, stress and trauma, immigrant Pediatrics, helped to orient the workshop participants families have unique stressors due to their immigration with a description of the current child and youth experiences.
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... on the health of children, adolescents, emerging adults, and their families. Dzau shared research that showed DEFINING RESILIENCE direct racial discrimination is associated with twice the Masten defined resilience as the "capacity of a system risk of developing a mental health disorder, and that to adapt successfully to challenges that threaten system children exposed to persistent indirect discrimination function, survival or development." She explained that are at greater odds of poor mental health.
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... showed has lifted families out of poverty and help families afford adequate food. Samuels added that While individual resilience is important, Bryan Samuels, increased access to economic support is associated with Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, commented decreased child welfare involvement.
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... She explained that intervene on social determinants of health. She this as a holistic measurement strategy that supports argued that for sustained improvements, there is a "whole person, whole system, whole community" need to address these broader social issues, noting that action and improvement.
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... mental health supports can help youth feel empowered to advocate for themselves. Calarino explained the Additionally, Samuels added that most policies are importance of meeting youth at their level, noting targeted at fixing a specific problem.
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... . Additional support came from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Children's Hospital Association, Family Voices, Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Well Being Trust, and ZERO TO THREE.


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