Links

Strengths-based practice

• The Center for Strengths-Based Strategies. A training and technical assistance organization (Mike Clark)
• Olmsted County, Minnesota. Children and Family Services(Sue Lohrbach)
• Strengths collaborative. University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Bob Blundo)

Resiliency

• National Resilience Resource Center. University of Minnesota (Bonnie Benard, Kathy Marshal, and Ann Masten)
• Project Resilience (Steve and Sybil Wolin)

Solution-focused Therapy:

• Brief family therapy center (Insoo Kim Berg)

Positive Psychology

• The Gallup Organization (Shane Lopez)
• Making hope happen – The University of Kansas (Shane Lopez)
• Positive Psychology Center. University of Pennsylvania (Martin Seligman)

Health Realization

• Health Realization Institute, Inc. (Roger Mills)

Quote

"[Clients’] achievements in the face of numerous obstacles and barriers, should be viewed as truly Herculean. Their resiliency is in itself a cause for a celebration of the human spirit (p.17)"

 Rapp, C. A., & Poertner, J. (1992). Social administration: A client-centered approach. New York: Longman Publishing Company.