Mentoring for Resiliency: Setting Up Programs for Moving Youth from "Stressed to Success" [Paperback]

Nan Henderson (Editor), Bonnie Benard (Editor), Nancy Sharp-Light (Editor), Emmy E. Werner (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Resiliency in Action (April 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966939417
• ISBN-13: 978-0966939415
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,561,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nan Henderson, M.S.W., is an internationally recognized author, trainer, and consultant on fostering human resiliency in youth, adults, families, and organizations. Her publications on this subject are used in more than 25 countries and have been translated into Spanish and Russian. She is co-founder and President of Resiliency In Action, Inc., a training and publishing company in Southern California.

Ms. Henderson provides resiliency and youth-wellness related training nationally and internationally. She has trained and consulted in 44 U.S. States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Organizations she has worked for include Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Upward Bound; the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission; the New Zealand Ministry of Education; Job Corps; and State Departments of Education in California, Vermont, Colorado, Maine, Texas, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire. She has also been a trainer for hundreds of school districts, and social service and community agencies.

The Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, Gerald Zavorchak is now recommending that Ms. Henderson's resiliency model be used in every school in the state. New York City Schools are also adopting Ms. Henderson's resiliency model and she is involved in a major resiliency initiative there.

In 2004, she provided training for New Zealand's National Federation of Children's Health Camps as well as for National Child and Youth Welfare Officials, which was introduced by the country's Minister of Child Welfare.

Her experience includes several years as a youth substance abuse and other risk behavior prevention and early intervention specialist. Her work links the resiliency framework with the best in prevention and intervention with youth risk behaviors.

Ms. Henderson has served on the faculty of five colleges/universities (with an emphasis on substance abuse issues in her higher education teaching); worked as a clinical therapist with youth, adults, and families in agencies and schools; and directed citywide, statewide, and school districtwide youth risk behavior prevention and resiliency implementation programs.

She is the author/editor of five books, including Resiliency In Schools: Making It Happen for Students and Educators, published by Corwin Press-one of its all-time best-selling books. Her most recent book is Resiliency In Action: Practical Ideas for Overcoming Risks and Building Strengths in Youth, Families, and Communitie (2007), Mentoring for Resiliency: Setting Up Programs to Move Youth from "Stressed to Success"; and Schoolwide Approaches for Fostering Resiliency, all published by Resiliency In Action.

Her articles have appeared in several national publications, including Education Digest; Hope Magazine; Principal Magazine; and Prevention Researcher. She was the featured resiliency expert on National Public Radio's July 16, 2002 "Talk of the Nation" program on resiliency.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful Start for Mentoring Youth, April 14, 2001

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Barney Ruffles (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mentoring for Resiliency: Setting Up Programs for Moving Youth from "Stressed to Success" (Paperback)

No other book provides the passion and power for establishing mentoring connections for youth as this book. While not exactly a how-to-do-it book, it provides enough details about the "why" of mentoring and disinguishes clearly between mentoring that has value for youth versus other types of well-meaning approaches. Chapters are included by the most well-known leaders in the youth mentoring field, including Marc Freedman and Bonnie Benard, that are not only informative and inspiring, but can can easily yield guidance for anyone associated with mentoring youth. All the authors agree that the power of mentoring is not in the "program," but in the relationship.