Resiliency Ring Event
On Playing a Poor Hand Well: Mark Katz on Resiliency and Mental Health
by the Resiliency Workgroup, & Rick Shepler, Center for Innovative Practices
With the support of the Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH), and ODMH’s Resiliency Workgroup, the Center for Innovative Practices recently hosted Mark Katz, author of the book On Playing a Poor Hand Well. Dr. Katz, is in the process of writing his second book on resiliency and returned to Ohio in his quest to catalogue resiliency in youth who experience special challenges and find ways to succeed in life. He is fond of quoting Robert Louis Stevenson, who once said that "life is not so much a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
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Youth and parents in the driver's seat: Building a resiliency-based mental health system from the consumer’s perspective
by the Resiliency Workgroup and edited by Terre Garner, Ohio Federation for Children’s Mental Health and group facilitators Rick Shepler, Center for Innovative Practices and Charlotte Williams
Beginning on January 29, 2005, ODMH convened a workgroup of youth and family members to assist in the development of a resilience-based mental health system for Ohio’s children. The workgroup has maintained a strong youth and parent voice throughout the process and has echoed a similar message; “Families and youth need to be a part of directing the help that they get along their road to success.” A particular focus of the group is to promote a strong youth presence and to incorporate their vision of resilience. As one workgroup member conveyed, “children have much to contribute, and can help others who have similar problems.” The depth and richness of each youth’s and family’s experience is evident. Each parent and youth has his or her own story of resilience and has been sharing life experiences, wisdom, and stories of hope in the workgroup. One of our youth members stated it well “Resilience is knowing when you are falling, and knowing how to catch yourself.”
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Creating a Resiliency Agenda for Ohio’s Youth
by Rick Shepler, Ph.D., PCC , Center for Innovative Practices
The Ohio Department of Mental Health has taken a lead role in the development and dissemination of a statewide mental health resiliency model that informs policy and practice across the developmental life stages of a youth (from infancy to the transition to adulthood).
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Architects of a resilient children's mental health system: A youth and family-driven process for developing Ohio's vison for resilience.
by Rick Shepler, Charlotte Williams, and Robin Gilbert
On January 29, 2005, ODMH convened a group of youth and family consumers to initiate the first state-wide resilience workgroup for children’s mental health. The purpose of the group is to develop a consumer-driven resilience initiative for children’s mental health in Ohio. The depth and richness of each youth’s and family’s experience contributed to making this a truly energizing event.
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