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, lack of family and social support, these are not only economically vulnerable but also psychologically vulnerable. These vulnerabilities are reflected in increased risks of enabling survival strategies marked by crime, prostitution, drug addictions and other indicators of both economic and psychological impoverishment.
The United Nations and other organizations have specific projects aiming to address the economic vulnerabilities by increasing for example, the availability of education and job opportunities. Unfortunately, it does little to address the core psychological vulnerabilities accumulated since childhood. We propose a framework to address the psychological vulnerabilities in the vulnerable population. The aim is to directly counter psychological vulnerabilities by building psychological resilience using a combination of cost-effective technological and therapeutic tools. |
Our framework is built on three scientifically established facts:
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Building more resilient brains, will lead youth to make better decisions throughout life in all fields of life:
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