This Honolulu Advertiser article interviewed famed researcher Emmy Werner . The article states, in part, “Emmy Werner may not be a household name, but the discoveries she has made over 40 years of studying 698 children born on Kaua’i in 1955 have created a sea change in the way society views — and helps — at-risk children. The words “resilience” and “protective factors” have come from Werner’s longitudinal studies of children on Kaua’i and elsewhere, and they have defined the way social workers now look at how to intervene in the lives of troubled young people — as well as delineating markers that can keep a child from going astray. “When it comes to resilient children, it didn’t matter if they were Hawaiian or Portuguese or Filipino or whatever else,” said Werner by phone from her California home. “What mattered was whether they had these buffers in their background.”

Download: Raising Resilient Children–Advertiser article