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Improving resilience in the world’s most vulnerable is challenging. While growing up in areas characterized by lack of education, motivation, war, climate disasters, poverty, crime, and lack of family and social support, these are economically and psychologically vulnerable. These vulnerabilities are reflected in increased risks of enabling survival strategies marked by crime, prostitution, drug addictions, and other indicators of economic, education, and psychological impoverishment.
The United Nations and other organizations have specific projects aiming to address the economic vulnerabilities by increasing, for example, the availability and access to education and job opportunities. But, unfortunately, it does little to address the need to invest in sustainable lifelong learning strategies to benefit the adult population. We propose a framework to address these vulnerabilities in the adult population. The aim is to counter psychological vulnerabilities by building educational and psychological resilience directly. |
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Our framework is built on four scientifically facts:
- Early interventions in adult education have proven that (a) empower the individual to be a better provider and be better placed professionally; (b) diminishes mental health problems, which helps not only the individual but also the burden placed on government's expenditures.
- Interventions earlier in people's lives are more effective— in terms of costs, mental, and therapeutic benefits.
- All behavior is the result of brain processes. By addressing the developing brain in the early stages, we can increase resilience to both prior and future adversity.
- Neuro-technologies, including neurofeedback, brain-scanning methods, virtual and augmented reality, and tracking objective physiological markers of stress, provide both optimal therapeutic effects and quantifiable measurement of therapeutic outcomes.
Building more resilient brains, and having a solid and sustainable lifelong learning strategy, will lead adults to make better decisions throughout life in all fields of life:
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