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Rfp Program Perseveres: Continuing Efforts For Resilient Families & Communities Despite The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cadence Gazo, Heba Aljumaily, Lora Haynes Apr 2021

Rfp Program Perseveres: Continuing Efforts For Resilient Families & Communities Despite The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cadence Gazo, Heba Aljumaily, Lora Haynes

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Since 2011, UofL’s Resilient Families Project (RFP) has offered programs at Wayside Christian Mission’s Hotel Louisville to promote evidence-based habits of resilience, mindfulness and happiness in families experiencing homelessness and women in drug and alcohol recovery. RFP’s mission involves growing healthy attachment relations across the lifespan and a sense of community/belonging and purpose. Family/interactive reading and carefully chosen children’s storybooks are the platform for programs that take place Thursdays nearly year-round and typically serve approximately 100 community members. Despite RFP programs having been put on hold through the COVID-19 pandemic, as RFP interns we worked to assess/evaluate programs and develop/refine …