Adapting to Meet the Needs of Youth During a Pandemic Through Poetry & Art

Hope at Hand, Inc. is a North Florida nonprofit that uses therapeutic poetry lessons to help marginalized youth recognize and overcome circumstances that limit their successful participation in society. Through the Covid-19 Pandemic, many of the facilities we partner with limited visitors which prompted our staff to find new means of reaching isolated youth. The presentation will demonstrate adaptive interventions informed by narrative psychological research to improve resilience through the coping strategies of (1) social competence, (2) problem-solving skills, (3) autonomy, (4) sense of purpose, and (5) life story reframing, all through virtual programming