Metro Nashville expands Resilient Communities and PACE education, launches toolkits to build local supports
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Summary
Kylan Hadley of Metro Public Health described Resilient Communities and PACE's Education, training programs and an initial 'Resilient Families' toolkit to help caregivers build protective relationships and supports; she also cited local youth data to show areas of need.
Kylan Hadley, manager of Resilient Communities and PACE's Education at the Metro Public Health Department in Nashville, used the Resilient Tennessee Collaborative Summit to outline a local public‑health approach to resilience that pairs training with audience‑specific toolkits. Hadley described a new “Resilient Families” toolkit and said Metro Public Health aims to scale additional kits such as “Resilient Classrooms.”
Hadley asked summit attendees to complement prevention with secondary and tertiary programs already in place: Metro Nashville’s violence‑prevention credible‑messenger work, free city‑funded therapy programs and targeted programs for opioid use disorder and suicide prevention. She presented Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data for Nashville showing both needs and protective factors: for example, she reported that about 1 in 5 high‑school students said they had lived with a caregiver who misused substances, and that nearly half of high‑school students reported feeling close to people at school — a protective factor but also an area to improve because it means half do not feel that connection.
Hadley described the Resilient Families toolkit as practical guidance (dinner‑table conversations, tips for caregivers, and community resource navigation) aimed at two‑generation support: equipping caregivers and connecting youth to positive childhood experiences (PCEs). She emphasized partnerships with the Behavioral Health and Wellness Advisory Council and All Children Excel Nashville (a collective-impact initiative) and called for practical, locally driven supports that fit families’ needs.
Ending: Hadley urged attendees to consider small, replicable tools and to carry resilience messaging and practical supports back to their neighborhoods and organizations.
