Ken Ginsburg Part 2: Raising Resilient Children & Teens: Strength-Based Strategies (PM Session)

Back by popular demand in 2026! Join Dr. Ken Ginsburg, renowned adolescent medicine expert, to explore proven strategies for nurturing resilience in youth. Learn practical, strength-based, and trauma-sensitive methods that empower students to thrive, while balancing care and expectations. Discover the vital roles educators, families, and communities play in fostering lasting resilience and well-being for every child and teen.

This session will offer a deeper dive into how evolving brain sciences reinforce and explain what we have long known - relationships matter, are healing, and can transform lives.  This session will also allow for additional examples to deepen an understanding of concepts presented in the morning.  Critically, it will allow time for participants to ask questions about applying these principles with our youth.

Dr. Ken Ginsburg is a pediatrician specializing in Adolescent Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He also serves as Director of Health Services at Covenant House Pennsylvania, an agency that serves Philadelphia’s youth enduring homelessness.

The theme that ties together his clinical practice, teaching, research, and advocacy efforts is that of building on the strength of teenagers by fostering their internal resilience. He works to translate the best of what is known from research and practice into practical approaches parents, professionals, and communities can use to build resilience. To advocate for parents’ critical role in raising resilient children and teens, he has appeared on CNN, NPR, The Today Show, Good Morning America, The CBS morning show, FOX and Friends and ABC, NBC, and CBS Nightly News programs.

Dr. Ginsburg lectures widely to national and international parent and professional audiences. His most recent books are, "Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings," and “Raising Kids to Thrive: Balancing Love with Expectations and Protection with Trust”, both published by The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). The AAP has also published a multimedia toolkit “Reaching Teens: Strength-Based, Trauma-sensitive, Resilience-building Communication Strategies Rooted in Positive Youth Development ” that offers up to 95 continuing education credits for youth-serving professionals.

Dr. Ken Ginsburg will be presenting at Riverton High School.