Toward Fostering Resilience On A Large Scale: Connecting Communities of Caregivers - Promising Futures

In interventions for at-risk children, Tom Dishion strongly exhorted programs that are short-term, cost-effective, and delivered in families’ own communities, just as resilience researchers underscore the need for programs that provide ongoing support for children’s primary caregivers, and are implementable on a large scale. Presented here are preliminary results on a  short-term intervention for mothers, the Authentic Connections Virtual Groups.