OP-ED: How Do We Build Resilience Among Youth? [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/8/144:00 AM

How can the juvenile justice system — and other agencies that serve children — build post-traumatic resilience among youth? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest foundation dedicated to improving the health of all Americans, is exploring how it can contribute to ending the culture of violence and trauma that is an obstacle to good health for too many vulnerable Americans. We cannot call ourselves a healthy nation if we continue to be a violent one.

[To read more of Jennifer Ng’andu's op-ed go to http://jjie.org/op-ed-how-do-we-build-resilience-among-youth/107382/]

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