Strategies beyond risk prevention

Safe, secure, sustained relationships empower young people to heal, grow, and thrive.

Youth-serving professionals and groups and organizations for fostering resilience and reaching teens

FOSTERING RESILIENCE: OUR MISSION

Preparing Children and Teens to Thrive Through Both Good and Challenging Times

Young people need safe, secure, sustained relationships to thrive. Such relationships can even allow them to heal from hard pasts. Your relationship with young people makes the difference!

Even well-designed curricula, programs, and initiatives only help youth reach their full potential when healthy adult relationships supply the scaffolding young people deserve to develop.

Our goal for adolescent health and well-being must not be limited to the absence of risk, it must include the cultivation of those strengths we know position young people to take their place as contributing members of society.

Youth-serving professionals, organizations, and schools can prepare children and teens to thrive through both good and challenging times.

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About the Author

The expert behind the work—with over 30 years of research dedicated to empowering youth to develop their own solutions to social challenges and training clinicians to better support them.

Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, pediatrician specializing in adolescent medicine at the childrens hospital of Philadelphia.
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Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg

Dr. Ken Ginsburg is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

He is the Founder and Program Director of The Center for Parent and Teen Communication, where he focuses on strengthening family connections through research-driven and practical approaches that have passed the test of time.

Throughout his career, Dr. Ginsburg’s focus has evolved from addressing teen problem behaviors to empowering parents to raise resilient, well-prepared children and preparing professionals to guide youth to develop to their potential.

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