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Through nationally-recognized, resilience-based services, evaluation and research, CERD promotes healthy organizations, strong families, and communities. more

What's Happening Now

CERD Executive Director Radio Interviewed for Groundbreaking Approach to Working With Resilience. Want to hear more, please click [here] and then click on "New!."

CERD/REBOUND New Orleans Workshop, April 5-6, 2010: Filled to Capacity and Seen as Major Success. In concert with Mentor Foundation, CERD offered its groundbreaking Resilience Drug Education Workshop, and by all accounts was a major success. THANK YOU NEW ORLEANS!

First International Drug Education Study to Focus on Resilience as an Alternative to 'Just Say No,' and Improving School Achievement: In a ground-breaking collaboration together with top scientists, educators and practitioners in Germany, The Center for Educational Research and Development (CERD) is poised to begin the first large-scale, international drug education program founded on the principle of resilience. This project represents one of the first major shifts from traditional drug education to a modern trajectory—changing ineffective programs from a focus on preventing problems to promoting skill-based youth development regarding drug decisions and school achievement.[Learn more]

CERD Evaluation: CERD makes special offer on groundbreaking strengths-based evaluation. If your organization is development-focused, act now, and receive a 10% discount! [More about this offer]

“Despite a 40-year interdisciplinary and longitudinal research legacy—showing that nearly 80% of young people considered most ‘at risk’ thrive by midlife—only recently have practitioners/researchers engaged in the intentional facilitation of resilience.”
—Dr. Joel Brown, CERD

 

Acknowledging adversity while working with individual strengths and interests to promote learning and development in the day-to-day, moment-to-moment experiences of ones' life
CERD offers a unique opportunity to experience Resilience. When developing individual strengths and interests, anyone can increase awareness to take responsibility for his/her own life-long learning and development. Many can then cultivate this experience with others.