Mental Health Week 2023: Caregiver Well-being Event

Resilience is the ability to adapt and remain healthy in the face of adversity. The Alberta Family Wellness Initiative (AFWI) uses the metaphor of the Resilience Scale to describe resilience as the dynamic interaction between exposure to adversity, access to positive supports, and skills and abilities.

Resilience can be strengthened over time by reducing the burden of adversity and accessing safe, stable, and supportive relationships and environments that tip the scale towards healthy outcomes. This presentation will delve into the science of resilience and how the Resilience Scale can be used as a tool to improve outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.

Dr. Serena Jenkins is a Scientific Associate with the Palix Foundation, a private foundation based in Calgary that created the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative to turn what we know about brain development, mental health, and addiction into concrete changes in policy and practice.

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