Education - Life Skills Program - Overview
The purpose of this section is to offer programs that help children, youth, adults and families develop and deepen their resiliency.
Resiliency is the ability to deal with life's inevitable obstacles and overwhelming issues and bounce back. The research has shown for many years now, that children who are raised and taught to be resilient can go on to get on with their life and achieve great things despite what they went through in their first formative 18 years.
Resilient children and youth experience better health, higher grades and graduation rates, and achieve higher levels of education. Plus, as adults, they have higher income and happier relationships.
In addition we believe we will provide some valuable resources in this section to assist professionals in their practice with the many children, youth and families they work with. Please share this resource with them. (Download your copy HERE)
The first set of programs we are introducing in this section is from Michael Ballard and Resiliency for Life. He has been working with children, youth, parents, foster parents, grandparents and professionals for over 20 years. As a youth his family adopted a young lady. So he knows a little of what it is like have a new addition to the family. He is the father of two (now adult) daughters. His programming has allowed him travel coast to coast across Canada and from Bermuda to Singapore. His work with special needs children brought him to our attention here at CANGRANDS. Michael has presented at our annual summer events and conferences several times. Yes ... we've invited him back again for our next event to work with us and our youth.
More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.
Harvard Business Review May 2002
CANGRANDS National Kinship Support
R.R. 1, McArthurs Mills, Ontario K0L 2M0
Tel: 613-474-0035
E-mail: grandma@cangrands.com
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