User guide for children & young people

Welcome to the Resilience Wall Framework

We all face difficulties at some time in our lives – every time we learn a new skill, face a new situation, deal with conflicts, experience loss or disappointments. However, some people have more than their fair share of challenges whether through disability, bullying, abuse, poverty, or tragic circumstances. You may be one of them.

One of the key factors that determine your ability to deal with adversity is your ability to bounce back when things are tough – your resilience.

Resilience is important because it:

• Helps you to try new things.
• Encourages you to take on challenges.
• Keeps you going when things get tough.
• Keeps your dreams alive.
• Helps you to deal with failure and frustration.
• Give you the strength to get up and try again.
• Give you a ‘WHY’ to keep going for.

Tips for professionals:

Working with the child / young person, the aim of the framework is to help them think strategically and practically about doing things resiliently in their day-to-day lives, by exploring each of these sections in turn.

• We recommend the first step is to spend some time with the young person to briefly review the entire framework to familiarise him/herself with these key sections. You will see that within each section is a range of examples, ideas or remedies, to consider discussing with the young person.
• Take your time, it’s best not to attempt to rush through the framework, so consider setting a timeframe and decide how many sessions you plan to have over the coming weeks/months.
• At the young person’s pace, navigate through the table. The framework is designed to be an engaging two-way communication process, so the young person should be heavily involved throughout.

How to use the Resilience Wall Framework

STEPS

1. You can either use the tool as a guest or register and create a username and password.

2. Creating a username will allow you to save your resilience walls, add to them in the future and use them to compare progression and updates. If you use the tool as a guest, you won’t be able to save your walls.

3.Once you’ve logged in, you will be taken to the My Walls page. Click the button to create your Resilience Wall.

4. You will then be taken to the Resilience Wall Framework.

5. Here you can start working on your resilience wall, building it brick-by-brick.

Clicking on each box will open up a new page displaying the various elements of that part of the framework.

6. Select which brick you want to review and click the box. You can work through each at your own pace, in any order you wish. 

You will now see a series of suggestions and points to consider to help you review the young person’s approach to resilience in relation to that specific aspect of the wall.

7. This page also contains useful links and resources.

By clicking on the notes page, you will see a series of prompts designed to help you record actions and steps you intended to take in relation to strengthening resilience in this area. 

You can identify the status by clicking on the relevant button. Your selection will save automatically. 

The notes you make on each brick will form your overall action plan. 

You can work your way through your resilience wall at your own pace. The notes you add will save automatically but you can go back and edit them.

8. You can return to your resilience wall and continue progress by clicking the ‘My Walls’ tab.

In this section you will be able to view your wall(s).

To give your wall a name you can click on the pencil icon.

To continue working on, or edit your wall, click on the eye icon, or the wall name.

If you want to make a new wall, click the button to begin.

When you create a new wall from this page, you will be asked to give it a name. Make sure you give it a different name from previous walls.

Downloading your resilience wall

Your resilience wall can be accessed online, but if you’d like to download it and print a copy, just click the ‘Download PDF’ which you’ll find at the bottom of each page.

You can create a PDF of individual bricks, selected sections, or your full resilience wall.

If you make notes, they will only display on individual brick PDFs, not sections or your full resilience wall.

Click here to download a PDF of the Children and Young People’s Resilience Framework.