@article{ref1,
title="Youth Resilience Corps: an innovative model to engage youth in building disaster resilience",
journal="Disaster medicine and public health preparedness",
year="2015",
author="Acosta, Joie D. and Towe, Vivian and Chandra, Anita and Chari, Ramya",
volume="10",
number="1",
pages="47-50",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Despite the growing awareness that youth are not just passive victims of disaster but can contribute to a community's disaster resilience, there have been limited efforts to formally engage youth in strengthening community resilience. The purpose of this brief report was to describe the development of a Youth Resilience Corps, or YRC (ie, a set of tools to engage young people in youth-led community resilience activities) and the findings from a small-scale pilot test. <br><br>METHODS: The YRC was developed with input from a range of government and nongovernmental stakeholders. We conducted a pilot test with youth in Washington, DC, during summer 2014. Semi-structured focus groups with staff and youth surveys were used to obtain feedback on the YRC tools and to assess what participants learned. <br><br>RESULTS: Focus groups and youth surveys suggested that the youth understood resilience concepts, and that most youth enjoyed and learned from the components. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The YRC represent an important first step toward engaging youth in building disaster resilience, rather than just focusing on this group as a vulnerable population in need of special attention. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;0:1-4).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1935-7893",
doi="10.1017/dmp.2015.132",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2015.132"
}