Educating the Educators

Beyond Bushfires: Community, Resilience and Recovery. This five year study is being conducted by University of Melbourne mainly funded by the Australian Research Council (with additional support from a number of research partners). A number of university, government, emergency and local organizations are working together to understand how people and communities across Victoria are getting by after the February 2009 bushfires. We want to understand people's needs and responses in the medium to long-term recovery process and life in rural communities

Toward Resilience: A Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) is an introductory resource for staff of development and humanitarian organizations working with people whose live and rights are threatened by disasters and climate change.

We mobilize young people worldwide to connect, learn and take collective action on critical global issues. Our goal is to activate our greatest creative resource-students-to catalyze powerful change. Working together, we identify the need, create the challenge and forge strong partnerships. Then, we provide the tools and support to ensure our collective efforts are sustainable-now and into the future.

Parenting used to be all about "building self-esteem" but lately we seem to have shifted the focus to "building resilience". So, what is this resilience buzz word, and why does it matter to our child? Resilience is basically a person's ability to handle change and adversity. How well they manage setbacks, new circumstances, problems or crisis. Resilient people are the ones at the centre of the storm guiding people to safety, arranging for emergency supplies and working out a plan. The less resilient amongst us are panicking and calling for our mum…