- Michael R. Rosmann, Farmer and Psychologist
Chapter 2: What outcomes could be achieved using a socio-ecological risk and resilience framework? If sustainable change in conditions that give rise to crises on the farm can be achieved, it will be through a multi-disciplinary, research-based approach with multiple professionals, farmers, their families, and farm workers, and stakeholders, including decision-makers, working together. A sustainable change approach to resilient farms and farming population must go beyond teaching an individual or family how to manage stress. Efforts to get people to change behavior will be limited in success if policies, systems, and environments (PSE) do not support the desired changes (Honeycutt et al., 2015). Extension’s Wave Two of the Well Connected Communities project acknowledges the importance of PSE in this quote and Figure 13 from their website https://wellconnectedcommunities.org/: “We believe that the Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) changes that come out of this local and system- level work will advance the nation’s health equity movement so that life -long health and well-being are within everyone’s reach.” “ We believe that the Policy, Systems, and Environmental (PSE) changes that come out of this local and system-level work will advance th e nation’s health equity movement so that life -long health and well- being are within everyone’s reach . ”
- Well Connected Communities
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