Resilient Communities

Red Rock Center's Community Building Community Resilience (BCR) is a community-based community resident (BCR) that promotes the interaction between grassroots community services and public and private systems, and develops protective buffers to prevent child development , With the aim of improving the health of families and communities. Bad Child Experience (ACE) in family and community. Bad Community Environment (ACE) - 'A pair of ACE'. Linking community organizations (through the Church Health Department and trusted food stores) to larger systems (including health care, education, business, law enforcement) is a permanent network to improve community well-being You can start building. The BCR test site is located in the Alive and Well community in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dallas, Texas, Washington, DC, Missouri and Kansas. BCR is supported by the Doris Duke Charity Foundation, the Milken Family Foundation and the Kresge Foundation.

BCR considers that the resilience of the community is an important factor for improving public health outcomes. The resilience of the community arises from the buffering of communities and families to protect individuals from the accumulation of stress from bad childhood experience such as exposure to mental and sexual abuse, maternal depression, neglect or imprisonment It is. For example, if these exposures occur in a bad community environment (ACE) such as violence, racial discrimination, poverty, the impact will be more complicated, in many cases leading to stress and health decades of generations I will.

BCR's job is to build a network that fosters resilience to stress factors that are harmful to children's development and long-term health.

Contrary to individual resilience, community resilience is described differently in different studies and is more loosely defined (Kulig 2000). In addition, empirical data on the resilience of the community is limited. In general, the resilience of the community is described in three different forms: (a) resistance, the ability of society to absorb obstacles (Geis 2000); (b) focus on recovery capacity from speed and stress factors (C) the social system maintains the process of creation and re-creation, not only can the community deal with adversity, but also a higher level of functionality Creativity tackling the ability to achieve (Kulig 1996; Kulig) and Hanson 1996)

Adger (2000) defines social or community resilience as a community's ability to endure external shocks to social infrastructure. Social resilience such as "personal resilience" must take into account the economic, institutional, social and ecological aspects of the community (Adger 2000). The resilience of the community (society) is clearly related to the population and its stability. Therefore, it is also related to the flexibility of the individual. Population migration may be evidence of instability, or conversely, by type of immigration. In the face of large external pressures such as the impact of natural disasters, demographic movement is often an indication of the collapse of community social resilience and is influenced by economic, social and demographic factors (Adger 2000). However, because immigrants are actively selecting demographic characteristics (Lee 1966), losses from the affected community may be benefits to the destination.