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Building Farm and Farm Family Resilience in our Communities

Attribution		2
Table of Contents		3
Meet the Authors		6
Acknowledgments		7
Executive Summary		8
Introduction To The Guide		11
Chapter 1: Why use a farm and farm family risk and resilience framework?		12
Science and Best Practices		12
Stressors and the Farming Population		12
Types of Stressors		14
Extraordinary Stressors		16
COVID-19 - A Super Extraordinary Stressor		17
Financial		20
Stressors Summary		31
Health Challenges		31
Health Insurance Challenges		33
Financial Challenges		35
Farm Transfer		39
Beginning and Young Farmers		39
Relationships		39
Farm and Farm Family Risks		39
From Threat to Opportunity: The Power of Resilience		41
Individual and Family Resilience		42
Farming System Resilience		43
Community Resilience		44
Resilience Thinking and Doing		47
Building Resilience - Social Ecological Systems		47
Public Responses to Private Problems		50
Theory and Strategies behind Responses		53
Change Theories		54
Risk and Resilience Theories		57
Chapter 2: What outcomes could be achieved using a socio-ecological risk and resilience framework?		63
Risk and Resilience Educational Logic Models		65
Chapter 3: How can Extension and other professionals apply research and theories and incorporate existing resources into programming?		68
Overview		68
Purpose of Chapter Three		69
Contents of Chapter Three		69
Health and Well-Being		70
Assessment Tool:		70
“How Healthy is Your Farm?” Linking Farm Vitality and Family Health and Wealth		70
Tools for farmers and Farm Family Audiences		70
1. Farm and Farm Family Risk and Resiliency Toolkit		71
a. Thriving Farm Visuals and Descriptions		71
b. Building a Thriving Farm – Stacking Game		71
c. “How Healthy is Your Farm?”		72
d. Farm Resilience Bingo Activity		72
e. Reducing Stress and Building Resilience		72
f. Managing Farm and Farm Family Challenges Resiliently: A Worksheet to Explore Resilient Thinking and Doing		73
2. Health Insurance and Farm Risk		74
3. The Smart Choice Health Insurance™ and Smart Use Health Insurance™ educational modules and materials		74
4. Resilient Farms: Financial & Management Guides and Resilient Minds		75
5. Rural Resilience		75
6. Mental Health and the Impact on Wellness for Farm Families		75
7. Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits		75
8. Getting Experience with Mindfulness (GEM)		76
9. Mindful Wellness		76
10. Farming and Ranching in Tough Times (FS1804 June 2016)		76
11. Managing Stress on the Farm		76
12. Managing and Breaking the Chronic Cycle of Stress		77
a. Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Farm Stress II		77
13. Farm State of Mind Resource Directory		77
Tools for Professionals and Key Stakeholders:		78
1. Supporting Well-Being in the Agricultural Community		78
2. Behavioral Health within the Farming Population		78
3. Excellent Joy: Fishing, Farming, Hunting and Psychology		79
4. Mental Health in Rural America		79
5. Farm Family Stressors: Private Problems, Public Issue		79
6. Linking Farm Vitality and Health Community Forums		79
7. National Issues Forums (NIF)		80
8. Mental Health First Aid Training		81
9. Health Insurance Rural Economic Development in Agriculture (HIREDnAG)		81
10. Community Vitality and Rural Healthcare		81
11. Rural Agricultural Health and Safety		81
12. Rural Suicide Prevention Toolkit		82
13. Rural Response to Farmer Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Issue Guide		82
14. Practical Strategies for Extension Agents to Partner with Mental Health Professionals in Providing Family Consultation to Farm/Ranch Families		82
15. Mindful Wellness Curriculum		82
16. Mental Health America		82
17. Teen Mindfulness: Breathe Deeply 4-H Lesson		83
18. Farmer and Ranchers Stress Assistance Networks		83
19. Stressors and Resources for Farm/Ranch Families with Disabilities		83
20. Farm and Ranch Family Stress and Depression: A Checklist and Guide for Making Referrals		84
21. Addressing Depression, Alcohol and Farm Stress		84
22. Farm State of Mind Resource Directory		84
Financial Management		84
Assessment Tools:		85
PERSONAL FINANCE		85
1. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Financial Wellness Scale		85
2. Personal Finance Assessment Tools		85
FARM BUSINESS FINANCE		85
1. Oklahoma Farm and Ranch (Financial) Stress Test (Factsheet: AGEC-237)		85
2. Interpreting Financial Statements and Measures (IFSaM)		85
Tools for Farmers and Farm Family Audiences:		86
1. Extension Risk Management Education Centers		86
2. Annie’s Project		86
3. Making Family Business Decisions		86
4. Workbook for Ranch Transition When You Aren’t in Control		87
5. Financial Security for All		87
6. My Retirement Paycheck		87
7. Planning for a Secure Retirement		87
8. Your Money Your Goals		87
9. Counting Your Money Calendar		87
10. AgPlan		88
11. Ag Transitions		88
12. Health Insurance & Farm Risk Management		88
13. Healthy Farmers, Prosperous Farms		88
14. Women for the Land		89
Tools for Professionals and Key Stakeholders:		89
1. Defining Stakeholders for Agriculture		89
2. A Framework to Assess the Resilience of Farming Systems		89
3. National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA)		89
4. Association for Financial Counselors, Planners and Educators		89
5. Coalition of Agricultural Mediation Programs		90
Personal, Family, Farm and Community Resilience		90
Assessment Tools		91
1. Personal/Individual resilience “How to Measure Resilience with These 8 Resilience Scales”		91
2. Family Resilience Assessment Scale		91
4. Community Resilience Assessment		91
a. Baseline Resilience Indicators of Communities (BRIC)		91
b. Community Assessment of Resilience Tool (CART)		91
c. Rural Resilience Index (RRI)		92
Tools for Farmers and Farm Family Audiences		92
1. The Road to Resilience		92
2. Building Resilience Together		92
3. Keys to Resilience: Transformation through Adversity		92
4. Strengthening Families Program		92
5. National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network		93
6. Preparing the Next Generation to Take Over the Family Business		93
7. Checking Your Farm Business Management Skills		93
Tools for Professionals and Key Stakeholders		93
1. Building Resilience and Reducing Risk: What Youth Need from Families and Communities to Succeed		93
2. Farm Family Stressors: Private Problem, Public Issue		94
3. The Stalwart Family Case Study		94
4. Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence		94
5. Resource for Outreach		94
6. Using Readers’ Theater for Supporting the Health and Safety of Farmers and Their Families		95
Wrap up:		95
Chapter 4: Where Do I Start?		96
Strategic Planning		96
Program Planning		97
Conclusion		99
Appendices		100
Appendix A: Logic Model One - for Professionals		101
Appendix B: Logic Model Two - for Farmers, Farm Families & Farm Workers		102
Appendix C: Logic Model Three - for Stakeholders		103
Appendix D: Program Planning Tool Page 1		104
Appendix D: Program Planning Tool Page 2		105
Appendix D: Program Planning Tool Page 3		106
Appendix D: Program Planning Tool Page 4		107
References		108

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