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Resilience, for me, is about everything that we do, really, here at Hedgerows. We are here to support children, families, people in the wider community, but we really want them to come in and, down the line, hopefully they won't come back. I mean that in the nicest way possible. We want them to come back and volunteer. We want to move on and be resilient, and be successful in their own lives, so they can draw on their own strengths that they would have learned through maybe courses or through the support of the staff at the centre or other partners that we work with, so they then can then solve their own problems, their own crises, support their children, and have the confidence to do that, so they don't feel that they're not capable as a parent, that they need, you know, an agency involved in their life, when they may have had that themselves. We have many parents that go on, and children, to be resilient. In terms of parents, it might be about going back to work, being confident to do a training course, or emotionally, signpost themselves to another agency, or actually, know that they might go through a tough time, but they will come out the other side. Maybe, eventually, not take antidepressants, as many of our parents do. That would be a huge sign that they're resilient. Defining a child who's resilient is probably harder, I would say, than defining what it is for an adult. But for me, it would be a child that could actually come in and enjoy a session in nursery, be engaged, be fulfilled, but also be able to share if they're unhappy or share their emotions, so when they go to school and they come up again, it's a problem, that it's not going to define them, that they can face that challenge. So then when they go to secondary school, perhaps they're not missing time out. They're not staying at home, because something is troubling them at school. That they can go in there, face it. They're not going to end up maybe in a different school, and they can be able to complete their exams and hopefully go to university or have the job of their dreams.