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Building a Foundation for Resilience: What Early Educators Should Know 

As an early childhood educator, you’re likely familiar with the concept of resilience—one of the building blocks of a child’s early social-emotional development.  The most common factor for children who develop resilience skills is one stable and nurturing relationship with an adult, whether this be a supportive parent, caregiver, or educator. As a an early […]

Building a Foundation for Resilience: Child Edition

What is child resilience? In our previous two blogs, we unpacked what resilience means for both parents and early childhood educators. Today’s blog takes a deeper look at the four key factors that contribute to building resilience in children at a young age—and different activities parents, caregivers, and educators can use to support early childhood […]

Ending Child Abuse and Neglect: One Place’s Strategies

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month—and throughout the month, we’ve shared insights on different ways to help prevent child abuse and neglect. Today, we’re highlighting One Place’s role in preventing and ending child abuse and neglect in Onslow County.  In North Carolina, reports of child maltreatment remain high. In 2020, there were more than 108,000 […]

Conference gathers forces for community resiliency

Resilience has become a “hot button” element of ensuring survival, well-being, and success in many spheres of modern life—individuals and families, business and industry, faith, personal finance, education, sports, religion, health care; it’s a long list. There are few realms, however, in which building resilience at personal and societal levels is viewed as more essential […]

An Intro to Foundations for Resilience

Last fall, One Place launched Foundations for Resilience, an exciting program designed to support local nonprofit and for-profit organizations in the Onslow County region and beyond.  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 […]

Resilience Among Military Children

Each year, April is set aside as a military child appreciation month, officially known as the Month of the Military Child. With its start in the mid-1980s, the Pentagon and other military support organizations and agencies use the month to recognize military children for their sacrifice and bravery on the home front through the many unique challenges […]