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Sharing s tories for a resilient society

Sharing s tories for a resilient society. Hiroshi Tsutomi University of Shizuoka tsutomi@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp. Second Chance! as a turning point. I was a juvenile correctional officer and joined university 10 years ago.

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Sharing s tories for a resilient society

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  1. Sharing stories for a resilient society Hiroshi Tsutomi University of Shizuoka tsutomi@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp

  2. Second Chance! as a turning point • I was a juvenile correctional officer and joined university 10 years ago. • In Japan, correctional officers have not been supposed to associate with former inmates. • However, we, Second Chance! broke up the barrier first time in our correctional history between “them” and “us”. • Now, we can share our stories like today.

  3. Backgrounds for Second Chance!Positive Shift A paradigm shift has occurred in human service sciences from a problem solution approach focusing on negative aspects of clients to a change-oriented approach focusing on their positive aspects. • For example, • positive psychology, • interest in resilience in developmental studies, • solution-focused brief therapy, and • appreciativeInquiry in organizational development • Especially, I have been influenced by • The strength-based model in mental health services. Specifically, IPS and Bethel no Ie.

  4. IPS (Individual Placement and Support)Supported employment for people with a severe mental illness

  5. IPS (Individual Placement and Support)Supported employment for people with a severe mental illness Core Principles • Every person with severe mental illness who wants to work is eligible for IPS supported employment. • Employment services are integrated with mental health treatment services. • Competitive employment is the goal. • Personalized benefits counseling is provided. • The job search starts soon after a person expresses interest in working. • Employment specialists systematically develop relationships with employers based upon their client's preferences. • Job supports are continuous. • Client preferences are honored.

  6. Bethelno Ie(House of Bethel) • Group homes of mentally ill persons discharged from Urakawa Red Cross Hospital in Hokkaido • Unique slogans/mottos • We sell sea weeds and stories of our diseases, as well. • We welcome prejudice and discrimination. • At work, use your tongue rather than your hands. • Meetings first, meals second. • Disclose your weakness. • Take back the burden of your life. • Get together through our weakness. • Do not cure diseases . • Bethel is always filled with problems. • They started selling their video series in 1995 when prejudice against psychiatric patients was harsh.

  7. Bethelno Ie(House of Bethel) • Illusion and delusion festival to celebrate the coolest Illusion and delusion of its members. • “Using mental disorders for the community development” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv-31CgLGE4 Now the largest enterprise in Urakawa town.

  8. With these backgrounds, the idea of Second Chance! was initiated in June 2008 after my trip to Sweden

  9. Simply, I believe in resilience • …process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances (Masten et al., 1990) • …patterns of positive adaptation or development manifested in the context of adverse experiences (Masten et al., 1996)

  10. People can be resilient by sharing their recovery stories.

  11. We know from these stories that the adversity is not necessarily bad. • Posttraumatic growth (Tedeschiand Calhoun, 2004) • Stress-related growth (Park et al., 1996) • Benefit-finding (Helgesonet al., 2006) • Altruism born of suffering (Stauband Vollhardt, 2008; Vollhardt, 2009; Andoh, 2010) • Sense of coherence (Antonovsky, 1987)

  12. Object Negative Expert （Authority) Neutral Manager （technical advisor） Object/subject Peer/advocate or even unnecessary? Subject/peer Positive Paradigm Shift in Offender Treatment Model Strength-based model Medical model Risk management model Punitive model Offender Agency

  13. Today’s topicWhat bothers me right now is future disasters.

  14. New Zealand and Japan are a land of earthquakes. Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 Tohoku earthquake of 11 March 2011

  15. Nankaimegathrust earthquakeAnother larger earthquake we expect. In Shizuoka, 1) the probability of an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 or larger with 30 years is 89.6%; 2) 109,000 deaths are expected; and 3) we also have a nuclear power-plant.

  16. We need resilient communities and social capital can make a community more resilient.

  17. Some prior studies using social capital as a key variable (Aldrich, 2012)

  18. Aldrich (2012)Recovery of 39 neighborhoods in Tokyofrom 1923 Great Kantō earthquake Dependent Variable: population growth civic engagement

  19. Aldrich (2012)Recovery of 39 neighborhoods in Tokyofrom 1923 Great Kantō earthquake

  20. Aldrich (2012)Recovery of 9 wards in Kobe from 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake civic engagement

  21. Aldrich (2012)Recovery of 9 wards in Kobe from Great Hanshin Earthquake

  22. What can I do as a criminologist studying desistance to make a communitymore resilient ?

  23. Veysey (2008) Summary findings from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) Women, Co-occurring Disorders and Violence Study and Moments of Transformation study • How they changed and what they needed to sustain their change: hope, people who believed in them, and meaningful things to do. • Profound change occurred when women adopted valued social roles. • They learned new, or organized existing, skills to support the new role, • surrounded themselves with people who reinforced the new role, and • rewrote their life narrative to tell a story of strength and resilience instead of hopeless victimization. Veysey et al. (2009)

  24. Maruna (2001) Liverpool desistance study A qualitative investigation of desistance that involved long-term field observations and hundreds of casual and in-depth interviews with British ex-convicts between 1996 and 1998.

  25. Redemption script (Maruna, 2001)Difference in narratives between desisting and persisting offenders Self Future Purpose 1) “Real Me”: an establishment of the core beliefs that characterize the person’s “true self” 2) Optimism: an optimistic perception (some might say useful “illusion”) of personal control over one’s destiny 3) Generativity: the desire to be productive and give something back to society, particularly the next generation

  26. Based on desistance studies,I propose narrative capital in addition to social capitalto make a community more resilient.

  27. Narrative capital • From desistance studies, criminologists have found the core of resilience consists of recovery narratives. • Sharing recovery stories/narratives within a community can be a strength of a community. • The narratives can have such components as • Hope, outside empowerment, and meaningful challenges to do (Veysey, 2008) and; • “Real Us”, optimism, and generativity (Maruna, 2001)

  28. We can overcome what we will faceby creating and sharing our stories.

  29. One example: public narrative (Ganz, 2007) from community organizing • Leaders learn to draw on narrative to inspire action across cultures, faiths, professions, classes, and eras…, • A story of self communicates who I am – my values, my experience, why I do what I do. • Astory of us, and we are – our shared values, our shared experience, and why we do what we do. • And a story of now transforms the present into a moment of challenge, hope, and choice.

  30. Shizuoka 2.0Local organizationfor dialogue and creating/sharing stories

  31. SonoMachi no Kodomo (Children of the City) A TV drama broadcast on 17 Jan 2010 after 15 years of the Great Hanshin Earthquake http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwudlv_yyyyyyyyyy-yy_creation#.UX8P5bWnox4 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwurpt_yyyyyyyyyy-yy_creation#.UX8PvbWnox5

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