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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

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) in San Diego, California, 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]

2010 Resilience Drug Education Workshop Slated for New Orleans: CERD is planning a workshop in April 2010 that will provide low-cost training to health and education professionals who work directly with youth. More than ten years in development, Resilience Drug Education is one of the nation's first scientifically sound, promising alternatives to current drug education programs. Members of 30+ educational institutions have been trained in a resilience approach by CERD, including The Los Angeles Unified School District, and the Oakland School District. [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 in educational settings.”
—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.