Travelling Through Social Support and Youth Civic Action on a Journey Towards Resilience

Abstract

This chapter explores the connection between resilience and social support and how each is affected by individual, family and wider ecological factors that can be addressed at the level of social policy. The focus is on concepts of social support networks and how resilience can be built at multiple levels through youth civic action. Several short vignettes are presented that show how good policy can affect young people and the programming required to make this happen.