Family Service Center offers resilience building for teens

Family Service Center is offering a 12-week course for students in sixth through eighth grades who want to build resiliency skills.

The Resilience Builder Program will be held 5:30-6:45 p.m. Tuesdays from March 1-May 24 (no session March 22) at Family Service Center, 191 Waukegan Road, suite 206, Northfield. Sessions may be held virtually if necessary due to the COVID pandemic.

The program is led by certified clinicians trained in the resilience-building leadership. They'll provide strategies to adapt well to life's challenges, particularly in response to the pandemic.

Limited to six participants, the group format will help the students develop social competencies and self-regulation skills. Parent sessions are incorporated into the program once or twice to generalize how these skills are used in the real world.

Program scholarships are available to qualifying Glenview and Northbrook residents because of support of each of the villages' support.

For information on this spring Resilience Builder Program, call (847) 251-7350.