On April 21 - 22nd, 2016, the Redstone Center hosted a convening of the Building Community Resilience (BCR) initiative. Created and led by Wendy Ellis, Milken Scholar and doctoral student, BCR seeks to develop resilience through integrated networks of care that foster health system and community-based collaboration to address, prevent and reduce the effects of adverse childhood and community experiences on child health and wellbeing.
Resilience at the community level is a network of buffering supports that helps its members to “bounce back,” and is critical to the health and health outcomes of that community, according to Ellis. Dr. Bill Dietz is the co-principal Investigator on Ellis’ research, which is supported in part by an $800,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The grant will support BCR work in five U.S. cities including Washington, DC.