Triggering Hope: Strengthening Social Resilience

Presented by: Mary DeCoster, Coordinator for Social and Behavior Change Programs, TOPS Program/Food for the Hungry;  Mara Russell, Practice Manager:  Food Security and Livelihoods, Land O’Lakes International Development;  Helena Verdeli, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University

During this session, participants learned how fatalism, learned helplessness, depression, and aspirations failure are connected to food security outcomes.  They also learned about activities, interventions and research that could help overcome these problems and potentially lead to better food security results and impact.  In the last part of this session, participants discussed approaches that they have used in their program as well as what they think can be done to test out and scale up other successful approaches.