Families: Moving from Resilience to Recharge

December 6 • Talks on Tuesdays Webinar

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Decades of research on family resilience are being reimagined in light of a pandemic.  Join this web discussion of looking at family resilience as a way families can recharge as they apply their strengths and beliefs so they are more hopeful for the future and feel more confident they can manage life changes.

Dana Yarbrough

Dana Yarbrough is the Associate Director of the Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Among her many roles, she oversees the Center for Family Involvement and its work statewide to increase the skills of families as advocates, mentors and leaders so that families and children with disabilities can lead the lives they want.  Dana brings family wisdom and experience to her work as the mother to a young adult daughter who despite significant support needs for intellectual, physical and sensory disabilities as a result of premature birth runs her own dog boarding business.