An Intro to Foundations for Resilience

June 9, 2023

What is the Foundations for Resilience program?

One Place’s Foundations for Resilience program provides nonprofit and for-profit organizations in Onslow County with customized personal and professional growth opportunities and skill building. We offer customizable programming to support professional and community development—so as your team grows stronger, your community does too.

When you sign up for Foundations for Resilience, you can choose from our core themes or combine several different options to meet the interests, strengths, and areas of growth for your team.

Core themes include:

Personal Growth
Team Building
Trauma & Resilience
Personality Styles & Communication
Challenging Relationships

Why is this work important?

Strong, responsive communities have a waterfall effect on many different community outcomes—particularly on the futures of young children. When a community is strong, connected, and responsive, positive benefits include higher educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, and lifelong health.

For the children of Onslow County, living in a responsive community plays a critical role in ensuring that our community’s children are healthy, safe, nurtured, and ready to succeed. According to the North Carolina Early Childhood Action Plan, there are 10 different aspects of achieving a strong foundation for the children of North Carolina:

Healthy babies
Preventative health services
Food security
Safe and secure housing
Safe and nurturing relationships
Permanent families with children in foster care
Social-emotional health and resilience
High-quality early learning
On track for school success
Reading at grade level

How do I know if the Foundations for Resilience program is right for me or my organization?

The Foundations for Resilience program is designed for every organization with the understanding that all team members can benefit from learning empathetic leadership skills, understanding a range of personality styles and communication methods, and implementing strategies for the greater good of the community.

You’re a good fit for this program if:

You’re looking to grow or refine your team’s leadership skills
You’re an organization interested in learning more about creating responsive communities or navigating trauma and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
You’re interested in learning more about leadership, community development, or self-care
You’re looking to ignite and connect your team members
You’re interested in helping all of your team members find their zone of genius

What does the Foundations for Resilience program include?

Bringing the Five Protective Factors to Life: What are the Five Protective Factors and why do they matter? Participants will receive an introduction to the Strengthening Families Protective Factors, a framework that serves as a buffer between children and child abuse. Participants learn to identify strategies and concrete actions that build protective factors, gaining a deeper understanding of what it means to work with families in a strength-based way.

Darkness to Light Stewards of Children: Participants will learn strategies to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. The Darkness to Light Stewards of Children framework is an evidence-informed, adult-focused child sexual abuse prevention training built on the foundation of The 5 Steps to Protecting Children.

Maxwell DISC Method: The Maxwell DISC Method helps individuals identify personal strengths and challenges that affect communication, team cohesion, and individual effectiveness. Participants will take a DISC assessment and receive an in-depth analysis and action plan designed with best practices and leadership principles.

Cultural Competence: This introductory training helps explain why cultural competence is so critical. Participants will learn more about cultural conditioning, expand their own awareness and societal assumptions, and explore reflective practices, social identities, and intersectionality.

Creating Responsive Communities: Participants will explore why responsive communities are important, gain strategies to develop or strengthen self-care, and learn how to help connect themselves and those they serve with resources in the community.

Leadership and Administration: Participants will develop administration and leadership skills that support intentional approaches for effective programming. This training is for Early Childhood Program Administrators, serving children 0-5 with supervisory responsibility for staff members

Self-Care for Staff: Less stress leads to stronger, more united, and more productive teams. Participants will discuss current routines and identify self-care needs to create a self-care plan.

An Overview of ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years). Participants will discuss risks, protective factors, and prevention strategies to mitigate the impact of ACEs.

Working Genius: Maximize your team’s cohesion, increase productivity, and boost morale. This workshop will introduce participants to the Working Genius model and the six types of profiles through fun-filled and informative activities.

Focus Groups: Trained facilitators will help your team conduct a focus group on the topic(s) of your choice. We’ll help coordinate and implement a small group interview before recording and disseminating relevant data.

Community Cafes: Community Cafés are facilitated conversations centered around questions (typically three) chosen by your organization that provide insight and opinion from community members or stakeholders. Facilitators will coordinate the collection, recording and sharing of relevant data.

Facilitated Film Screenings: We offer a number of facilitated film screenings, including Resilience: The Biology of Hope; No Small Matter; and Starting at Zero.

Facilitated Book Studies: We offer a number of facilitated book studies, including: Crucial Conversations for Dialogue; What Happened to You?; Happiness is Running Through the Streets to Find You; The Ideal Team Player; and The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team.

Get started today

We will partner and collaborate with you closely to create a customized plan that aligns with your business goals and contributes to your overall mission—all while providing new opportunities to create resilience in your community.

Reach out to our team today to determine and discuss your organization’s needs: Joe Coffey | joe.coffey@oneplaceonslow.org or 910-333-0610