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Travelling Through Social Support and Youth Civic Action on a Journey Towards Resilience

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This chapter explores the connection between resilience and social support and how each is affected by individual, family and wider ecological factors that can be addressed at the level of social policy. The focus is on concepts of social support networks and how resilience can be built at multiple levels through youth civic action. Several short vignettes are presented that show how good policy can affect young people and the programming required to make this happen.

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  1. School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Aras Moyola, Galway, Ireland

    Pat Dolan

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  1. School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Coburg Road 6414, Halifax, B3H 2A7, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Dolan, P. (2012). Travelling Through Social Support and Youth Civic Action on a Journey Towards Resilience. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_28

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