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BUILDING RESILIENCE IN KIDS (BRIK)

New workshop offered - Teach Words for Feelings. Click Contact BRIK to ask about dates and times.

News from BRIK
September 12, 2007 - BRIK has received a grant from the Mattel Foundation for "Making Connections through Science™" in which we will partner with Science Club for Girls, a Cambridge non-profit , to help make good relationships a part of their goals for girls in their after school programs. We will be developing a training specifically for science teachers and leaders of science project groups. The originator of Making Connections through Science™ will present a seminar about it at Tufts University 's School of Engineering this September. We would be happy to hear from teachers who want to make their science teaching more relational and who would like to share ideas. Click on contact us!

BRIK is a small, lean non-profit helping children who have been stressed by poverty and trauma. We help children directly and through their caregivers to build resilience. But wait –

What Is Resilience? — Resilience is the ability to bounce back, to weather a storm. But what builds resilience in children and adolescents?

Relationships, research shows, are what build resilience. A relationship with parents and other family members is best, but when these are strained by immigration and poverty, children often look for connection at school or after school programs. In fact, teachers are often the people children who have survived abuse and trauma remember as the person who “got them through.”

To foster the relationships that build resilience, Building Resilience in Kids offers:

Making Connections at School: an innovative training for teachers and after-school workers based on research from the Stone Center at Wellesley and the Harvard Graduate School of Education work on girls’ development.
Art From the Heart: a program for middle school children who have difficulty getting along, and a curriculum and training on art from the heart for counselors.
Girls on the Brink of Adolescence: a program for mothers of preadolescent girls
Kids on the Brink of Adolescence: a program for teachers and parents of middle school children

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Welcome to BRIKontheweb.org, the web site of BUILDING RESILIENCE IN KIDS (BRIK)

Welcome to BRIKontheweb.org, the web site of
BUILDING RESILIENCE IN KIDS (BRIK)