Resilience isn’t born, it’s BUILT!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and our student leaders at Oregon City High School have been hard at work learning about primary prevention, risk and resilience, and individual vs. environmental strategies. They were led by professional youth trainer, Nigel Wrangham, through a group process of identifying resilience factors in the face of adversity.
They thoughtfully created the slogan above in hope that they would encourage their peers to know it takes time and effort to build resilience, it’s not just automatic. Here are some of the building blocks of RESILIENCE:
- *Positive Outlook
- *Emotion Regulation
- *Social Connections
- *Gratitude
- *Coping Skills
- *Self-Awareness
- *Flexibility
- *Problem Solving
The students spent time deciding what they thought would be the best methods of sharing their message. They decided on the following ideas:
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- Posters for schools and community
- Bracelets with campaign theme/colors
- Stress reliever bricks with campaign slogan
- Elevate Plaza brick in Oregon City with campaign slogan
- DIY Resilience Wall – large vinyl banner where we will invite students to share their thoughts on how to be/stay resilient
Other campaign components:
- Social media ads
- Billboard on 99E at 12th in OC
- Thriving Together event on 4/24 at Alliance Charter Academy showing Angst and workshop with Dr. Crystal Collier (see below)
- Middle School Family Forums – incoming 6th grader events 5/15, 5/22
