Resilience Building Strategies for Our Youth

Workshop with Kenneth R. Ginsburg M.D., M.S. Ed.

Target audience: health professionals, counselors and educators who work with children

Dr. Ginsburg is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He practices Social Adolescent Medicine: Medicine with special attention to prevention and the recognition that social context, stressors, and poverty impact health.

He developed the Teen-Centered method which is a mixed qualitative/ quantitative methodology used to enable youth to generate, prioritize, and explain their own proposed solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them.

He is the Medical Director for Covenant House, Pennsylvania, a care system that serves homeless, street, and marginalized youth in Philadelphia. While the shelter-based clinic serves all of the health needs of its patients, it focuses on stress as the underlying force that drives most behaviors that can affect good health.

Dr. Ginsburg has published three books, including The American Academy of Pediatrics "A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Your Child Roots and Wings", "But I'm Almost 13: An Action Plan for Raising a Responsible Adolescent" and is coauthor of "Less Stress, More Success".

The Academy also offers Dr. Ginsburg's stress reduction plan for teenagers in pamphlet's in doctors' offices across the nation as well as on an interactive website. Recently Dr. Ginsburg has been working with Military health professionals, counselors, and teachers on stress reduction and resilience building strategies for two million military children as they cope with parents' deployment.

Thank you to our Sponsors: Los Altos-Mountain View PTA Council, Mountain View-Los Altos High School Foundation, Mountain View-Los Altos High School Speaker Series, Mountain View High School Challenge Success, Mountain View High School PTSA, Los Altos United Methodist Church Children's Center Preschool Family Resource Center, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Loyola Elementary School, Blach Intermediate School, Egan Intermediate School, Bullis Charter School, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, The Children's Health Council, Palo Alto Council of PTAs, Palo Alto School PTAs, SHARE, Palo Alto City Libraries, All Saints' Episcopal Church of Palo Alto, Congregation Beth Am, St Mark's Episcopal Church of Palo Alto, Grace Lutheran, First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto

Thank you to the Courtyard Marriott Palo Alto / Los Altos for providing lodging.

 

 

Copyright © 2003-2009 Los Altos School District. All rights reserved.