“Nurturing Resilience” - Seminar with Professor Michael Ungar

Youth Work is hosting a public seminar by Michael Ungar, University Research Professor and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and Director of the Resilience Research Centre.

Michael is a Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist with over 25 years experience working directly with youth and families in child welfare, mental health, education and correctional settings.

Michael will be speaking on the topic of: “Nurturing the Resilience of Children and Families in Different Cultures and Contexts”.

Michael’s exciting and innovative work on resilience challenges the labelling of young people as delinquent, deviant or dangerous and aims to better understand behaviours seen as problematic. He is interested in strengths-based approaches to resilience that encourages young people’s ‘hidden resilience’. In this context Michael shifts the parameters of ‘resilience’ from considering individual capacities to focusing on how people working with young people can ‘change the odds’ to nurture resilience in multiple contexts and across cultures.

To find out more about Michael Ungar:

www.michaelungar.com

http://www.resilienceproject.org/

Title:	“Nurturing Resilience” - Seminar with Professor Michael Ungar
Date:	2009-10-06
Time:	10:30 – 13:00
Location:	RMIT Building 10.11.4 Swanston St, between La Trobe and Franklin Street.

A small number of places remain at this seminar.

It is essential that those wishing to attend RSVP to jenni.morris@rmit.edu.au or phone 9925 8202 between 8.30 and 4.30 by Friday 2 October.

For further details please contact Dr Kathy Edwards at kathy.edwards@rmit.edu.au