Strengthening School Communities From a New Perspective

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction by Jacqui Horan

In this thought-provoking and inspiring presentation, Julianna Tóth and her colleagues at the Bátor Tábor Foundation Hungary, describe part of a School Outreach Programme. It is designed to enable children to sensitively and successfully reintegrate into school after experiencing significant illness.

The extra ingredient in the Programme and the focus of the presentation is on the use of Solution Focused Frames, inspired by the Working on What Works programme originally developed by Insoo Kim Berg and Lee Shilts in 2002.

Universal issues of belonging, community and difference are explored and brought to life through the participatory experiences of the teachers, volunteers, children and young people involved in the Programme in the school classroom.

What also becomes evident to listeners is the scope to apply this approach to other situations where young people may be on the periphery of communities for any number of reasons. As such it offers a practical storyboard of Solution Focused ways to create a respectful, creative and person-centred story of inclusion that involves the whole community and continues to evolve.

At the heart of the Programme, we are asked fundamental questions:

What would we be doing on our best days?
What would we and others notice?
What difference would that make?

Typically, reintegration, integration and inclusion programmes focus on the individual on the periphery of the community. This Programme is different. It involves the individual and the community in which they are situated, capturing the everyday little details of change.

These details help build a bridge to increase individual and community self-awareness of what we would be doing on our best days so that there is “space for everyone”.

This content was originally presented at the 2026 SF24 Conference

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Strengthening School Communities From a New Perspective

Introduction by Jacqui Horan

This content was originally presented at the 2026 SF24 Conference↗

Listen on SoundCloud

This content was originally presented at the 2026 SF24 Conference