Silver Linings – Community Crisis Response Edition

Silver Linings - Community Crisis Response Program is an important tool that provides emotional strength to our youth when their lives are changing due to outside influences. This new program includes:

• Instructor Manuals that work in tandem with reproducible Participant Booklets in three separate editions developed for ages 5-8, 9-13, and adolescents.



• Each edition includes six sessions in a user-friendly format to assist educators and youth caregivers as they lead children and teens to understanding and hope concerning their own crisis event.



• A Story/Activity Booklet entitled Ferdinand the Eagle focuses on rebuilding and generating hope.



• Options for developing expandable "large group" displays where children can post drawings and other creative elements depicting what they have experienced.

Silver Linings has been proven successful in classrooms, community centers, and short term rescue shelters after 9/11, during the aftermath of weather related disasters, in areas of civil unrest, and when counselors are called to assist youth when violence and other tragedies occur.

"We were close to ground zero and used Silver Linings to help the families in our community. The feedback from the parents was wonderful. The children were more open at home and at ease talking about their feelings. Working with the materials, I personally think it is an excellent program."

Janet Kelly, Staten Island, NY

"Silver Linings was user friendly. Children and teachers/counselors enjoyed using it. Children were engaged in the participants' pages and had a lot to share. Working with Silver Linings seemed to normalize the reality of their loss."

Barbara Elordi, San Franciso, CA