This document discusses enhancing resilience in children in Denmark. It defines resilience as the capacity to navigate resources to sustain well-being despite adversity. A braided approach enhances both personal resilience competencies and resilience-promoting environments. The program focuses on building resilience, promoting children's rights, and preventing violence and abuse. It includes school campaigns, resilience activities for 4th-6th graders, and materials for teachers, parents and other professionals to strengthen protective factors for children. The overall goal is for children to know their rights and responsibilities while strengthening their self-confidence and well-being.

1. Enhancing pathways to
resilience
Anne-Sophie Dybdal psychologist, senior
child protection advisor Save The Children
Denmark

2. 2 Content
2. Resilience
– Our definitions
– Approaches
3. Resilience in a Danish context

3. 3 Our definition
 SCD uses Resilience research
centre in Halifax: “In the
presence of significant
adversity, resilience is the
capacity of individuals to
navigate their way to the
psychological, social, cultural
and psysical resources that
sustain their well-being , and
their capacity to individually
and collectively negotiate for
these ressources to be
provided in culturally
meaningful ways”.
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4. 4
Core factors in a resilience promoting
environment
 Sense of belonging- inclusive groups
 Focus on positive interaction and relationships
(peers, family etc)
 Childrens have the right to development and
protection. Adults have a special responsibility but
children can participate.

5. 5 A braided approach
 Enhancing integrity, self
confidence, personal strenght
, capacity to navigate and
negociate= Resilience
 Enhancing resilience-
promoting environments (
parents, teachers, authorities)
Resilience- promoting
environments

6. 6
What does it look like?
Robustness
Creativity
Initiative

7. 7 Resilience – Personal Kompetences
Social kompetences
 Establish and create
friendships
 Conflict resolution skills
 Ask for help
 Capacity to express
oneself to others
 Empathy
Personal kompetences
 Cognitive functions ( memory,
attention etc)
 Knowing one`s boundaries –
 Knowing and understanding
ones rights and responsibilities
 Sense of worth and belonning
 Emotional mastery

8. 8
Resilience promoting environments
Motivation, participation, inclusion
Relationships:
– Comitted and reciprocal
– Meaningful
– Trust
Children acknowledged as individuals
Healthy and consistent discipline
Access to and availability of services

9. 9
…and nr. 1: To belong, be apprciated
and loved.

10. 10
Childrens protection against
violence and abuse
 Danish Gvt. Allocates funds for prevention of abuse
(after a number of serious cases with much media
attention)
 20% of danish youth (8. kl.) har experienced violence
in the home in the last year.
 Only 9,4 % of danish children have good knowledge
about their rights (UNICEF 2009)
 Previously no programme that combines rights ,
resilience and protection from violence and abuse.

11. 11 The Programme
Focus: Resilience, rights, prevention of violence and abuse
Period: 1.nov 2013 – 31. dec.2016
Target group: A: 15.000 children in primary schools
B:Children in 10-12 selected schools, 4-6 grade

12. 12
Campaign (0 - 10 grade)
• Campaign activities
• Education material
• Child rights focal points ( children)
• CRC 25 year anniversery (20.11.2014)
Aim: Children and youth know their rights and
responsibilities

13. 13
Resilience building activities (4 – 6 grade)
Development and research
Aim: Strenghen childrens selfconfidence, well being by
supporting capacities in knowledge, personal and social
development.
• Documentation and measuring resilience
• School strategies for enhancing resilience
• Activities for children
• Training of teachers
• Active involvement of teachers, social services etc

14. 14
Content of activities
 (Material 4-6 grade)
 Rights
 Body boundaries
 Relationships with others
 Knowledge about violence and abuse
 Other lkife skills ( affective regulation, self worth, critical
thinking etc)

15. 15
Activities for adults with focus on resilience
1. Teachers material
2. Training of teachers
3. Materials:
School management and school proffessionals
Staff in after school facility staff
Parents
Social services/ Police
Save The Children volunteers

16. 16 Take home messages