Bounce Back Generation
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“We believe that in order to change behavior, we must understand the root cause of that behavior. Negative coping skills such as using sugar to manage emotional states and stress can be shifted to different coping skills that make you feel good today, and better tomorrow.”
BBG Staff
“BBG is showing me how lifestyle changes impact many parts of people’s lives, and helps us rise above in time of stress or crisis.”
BBG participant
Addressing Inequities By Reaching Key Populations Through Resilience and Trauma-Informed Approaches
Bounce Back Generation’s mission is to help individuals, families, and organizations to bounce back from the negative effects of toxic stress and trauma by creating and sharing practical tools, training, and media that foster resilience for this generation and the next.
In 2011, Bounce Back Generation (BBG) began their work as the Healthy Generations Project in a public housing community in San Francisco following the advice of a grandmother who had expressed that “we are all suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder” because of the constant presence of violent crime, drug use, poverty, institutional racism, and domestic dysfunction. This grandmother’s words continue to ring true today as many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are creating adverse childhood experiences for a generation of children.
BBG has created and tested practical tools over the last 10 years to improve educational achievement, support healthy childhood development, increase community involvement, and transform individuals and communities.
BBG’s peer hiring and training program lifts up parents, grandparents and concerned community members as “resilience-builders” and change agents for themselves, their families, and communities. BBG teaches adults and children how to understand and manage the connections between brain, body, and emotions and how to transform homes, schools, and workplaces so that people, places, and practices can create opportunities to recover and grow stronger.
BBG has accomplished creating a social media presence to share ways to cope through COVID and adopt habits that make individuals and communities stronger. Their peer content creators illustrate how they and their friends, family, and communities are building resilience, one block at a time.
BBG were recipients of the SDDT Healthy Communities Grant from 2019 – 2023.