Resilience Showing

I've not done this specifically Elaine but have a showing at the end of the month and want to run some workshops with people tackling ACE's using the outdoors so I've got a few practitioners from slightly different fields along to run the workshops. I suspect that if you went for people who work with a range of ages and across different settings for your panel you'd be fine. Might be worth throwing in a couple that could take a slightly different view to provoke discussion.

Thank you Mike, appreciated hearing what others are doing with their showings of Resilience.  

HI Elaine- I have participated on a panel and have helped others plan panels after Resilience screenings.  Always good to get local folks from different sectors that are addressing ACEs science on the panel so that folks can hear what they can do right in their community.   And as Mike said, those from different sectors or fields (such as education, health care, justice, social services) is good as well.  If you can have people do some kind of exercise as a small group discussion that is good as well (ie., what they can do based on what they learned in their family, organization or community). Good luck!

Hi Gail, If anyone is willing to share questions that they used for their panels after the Resilience screenings I would so appreciate it.  Right now, I'm doing this on my own...hope to gather momentum that morphs into an ACE's Initiative for NW Indiana.  Thank you, so much.

Hi Elaine,

We just had a very successful film viewing and panel discussion here in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.  I facilitated and the panel members consisted of:

• Family Support Programs Coordinator for Prevent Child Abuse Vermont,
• ED from our local Community Restorative Justice Center, 
• Maternal and Child Health and Nurse Home Visiting Program Manager from Caledonia Home Health & Hospice,
• Nurse from our largest public PreK-8th Grade School,
• Community Health Worker from our local Critical Access Hospital who is embedded in our public school, and
• Director of our Recreation Department who runs our Summer Camp programs and other community sports team programs.

Before the film I provided them with the Strengthening Families Framework (see attached) and told them I would first ask "How do you in your work/practice/service strengthen families, and which protective factors do you tend to focus on (Parental resilience, Social connections, Knowledge of parenting and child development, Concrete support in times of need, Social and emotional competence of children)?"

 Before I ended up asking that question, each of the panelists introduced themselves and talked about how they felt connected to this conversation, personally and professionally.  I did the same.

Our State's Director of Mental Health Integration prepared a really useful way to set up film viewings and panels in the context of prevention (PrevLens) - it is also attached.

My observation was that it was useful for the community members who were present to hear about all of the really incredible and resilience-building programs and groups and services we already have in our community - and how they could become more involved.

Good luck!

-Kari