Creative Resilience

This podcast is meant to create a space for conversation, education, and connection around creative approaches to promoting mental health and well-being among youth, families, communities, and society. Specifically, we will hold space to honor the real-life stories of those impacted by trauma, stress, and adversity and discuss what goes into the creative process of developing and implementing interventions that promote healing and resilience. The podcast will highlight lived experience, research, lessons learned, and inspirations from academics, artists, and community leaders leading efforts to improve mental health and well-being within their communities through creative approaches that center partnership and community strengths to lead to sustainable change. Through sharing real-life stories, recent research evidence, concrete resources, and tangible examples of specific efforts, we hope to inspire and support creative action in more communities and serve as a space that promotes mental health and well-being through sharing, connecting, and getting creative.

About THRIVE Research Lab:

The THRIVE Research Lab is dedicated to community-centered, participatory research and action that promotes healing and resilience among youth, families, and communities experiencing trauma and chronic stress. We aim to promote healing and resilience through an innovative research program designed to partner with communities to develop and implement strength-based solutions grounded in cultural humility.

Host

Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD

Dr. Briana Woods-Jaeger is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Behavioral, Social, and Health Education Sciences at Emory University. Dr. Woods-Jaeger’s research focuses on partnering with communities to identify programs and policies to prevent adverse childhood experiences, support different systems in understanding and responding to the needs of trauma-exposed youth and families, and improve access to culturally responsive, evidence-based psychological interventions for youth and families exposed to trauma and chronic stress. With expertise in arts-based approaches, youth participatory action research, and community-level interventions, she leads initiatives that center the strengths of communities in promoting mental health. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in culturally affirming approaches to care and community-level interventions to address trauma that center on cultural humility.