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Devereux Leads Resilience Initiatives as a National Model for Building Strong Social and Emotional Health - Pennsylvania

"Assessing and supporting children’s resilience in early childhood programs and education is a critical component to children’s development, laying a foundation for later competencies in managing stress and overcoming adversity throughout life, said Acting U.S. Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, George H. Sheldon, while speaking Friday at the Celebration of Resilience Conference hosted by the Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC) in Villanova....

"Devereux was the first organization to recognize the effect of trauma on kids, to make a commitment to the early assessment of resilience. Fundamentally, our work needs not just to be about child safety, but about child well-being. Have we given our children what they need to be socially and emotionally healthy, successful and well across their whole lifetime? This needs to be our focus,” he [Sheldon] explained....

"The Devereux Center for Resilient Children is a component of Devereux’s Institute of Clinical and Professional Training and Research (ICPTR), which brings together clinical and educational expertise in order to study issues relating to the social and emotional health of children, particularly focusing on prevention, early intervention and resilience...."

http://www.devereux.org/site/DocServer/Press_Release_Resilience_Conference2013.pdf

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