Children live in a world of ever-increasing stress factors, including global terrorism, pervasive exposure to violence, increasing substance use, and economic and social instability. To help them maneuver successfully through such a challenging world to adulthood, community-based resilience interventions are becoming more important than ever. Currently, resilience-based interventions are expanding to examine not only the internal strengths children and adolescents bring to a variety of situations, but also to explore how to leverage community and family resources in the context of a culturally diverse world. Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children reviews a variety of innovative approaches and actions that can be used at the community level to promote resilience in children and adolescents. Key themes throughout the book focus on how to: Shift the paradigm from illness to strengths and health. Assess and improve environments to minimize harmful influences and increase protection. Adapt to and build on strengths of cultural and linguistic variation in an increasingly diverse society. Move toward collaborative approaches that involve youth, families, schools, and community members who partner at all levels of program conception, implementation, evaluation, and improvement. For researchers, clinicians, and students, Community Planning to Foster Resilience in Children will be an essential tool in their efforts to promote the health and success of youth.

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1. Foundations.- 1. Introduction: Advancing Community Involvement and Planning to Promote Resilience in Youth from Diverse Communities.- 2. A Brief History of Resilience: From Early Beginnings to Current Constructions.- 3. Re-inventing Resilience: A Model of Culturally-Focused Resilient Adaptation.- 2. Promoting Resilience in Diverse Communities.- 4. Sacred Spaces: The Role of Context in American Indian Youth Development.- 5. Risk and Resilience in Latino Youth.- 6. Building Strengths in Inner City African-American Children: The Task and Promise of Schools.- 7. Resilience in the Asian Context.- 8. Risk and Resilience During the Teenage Years for Diverse Youth.- 9. A Global Perspective on Youth Outreach.- 3. Areas of Special Need.- 10. Responses to Terrorism: The Voices of Two Communities Speak Out.- 11. Environmental Factors that Foster Resilience for Medically Handicapped Children.- 12. Fostering Resilience among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System.- 13. Clinical and Institutional Interventions and Children's Resilience and Recovery from Sexual Abuse.- 14. School Strategies to Prevent and Address Youth Gang Involvement.- 15. Promoting Resilience in Military Children and Adolescents.- 4. Promising Resilience-Promoting Developments.- 16. Applying Research on Resilience to Enhance School-Based Prevention: The Promoting Resilient Children Initiative.- 17. Educational Resilience in Life's Second Decade: The Centrality of Student Engagement.- 18. Enhancing Child and Adolescent Resilience through Faith-Community Connections.- 19. A Whole-School Approach to Mental Health Promotion: The Australian MindMatters Program.- 20. Home, School, and Community: Catalysts to Resilience.- 21. Enhancing Student Resilience through Innovative Partnerships.- 22. Resilience-BuildingPrevention Programs that Work: A Federal Perspective.