The Young Foundation & BounceBack!

A pioneering resilience skills-based training programme

for Children's sector professionals within the UK.

Resilience is the ordinary superpower that helps us deal with set-backs, rise up to challenges and grasp opportunities.

Today we need resilience more than ever. The long-term impact of the recession coupled with deep public sector cuts, means there is much less support available to those who need it most. We have to find new ways of coping, adapting and thriving against the odds.

Resilience will train frontline professionals who want to enhance people's capacity to cope, adapt and thrive in difficult times.

The training draws on a growing body of international evidence about how resilience can be taught. It draws on positive psychology (the systematic study what enables humans to flourish) and cognitive behavioural therapy (the most widely recommended treatment for anxiety and depression).

Resilience training programmes are intensive and very practical. They equip professionals with the knowledge and skills to:

• promote accurate thinking
• teach adaptive coping and flexible problem solving skills
• enable others to identify their strengths and assets
• teach relaxation and negotiation techniques

The Young Foundation combines creativity and entrepreneurship to tackle major social needs. We work on many different levels to achieve positive social change – including advocacy, research, and policy influence as well as creating new organisations and running practical projects. The Foundation benefits from a long history of social research, innovation and practical action by the late Michael Young, once described as “the world’s most successful social entrepreneur”, who created more than 60 ventures which address social needs.

www.youngfoundation.org