Household Resilience:

Absorptive Capacity, Adaptive Capacity and Transformative Capacity

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Measures

These measures assess factors associated with a household’s ability to react to and handle household-level financial shocks that might otherwise lead to food insecurity (e.g., job loss, unexpected bill, expensive home damage not covered by insurance, etc.).

Absorptive Capacity: Downloadable Files

Adaptive Capacity: Downloadable Files

Transformative Capacity: Downloadable Files

Additional Materials

 Household Resilience User Guide

The guide provides a brief background on the development of the measures, descriptions of the measures, examples for potential uses, guidance for scoring and interpreting scores.

 Manuscript Describing Development and Validity Testing

Calloway EE, Carpenter LR, Gargano T, Sharp JL, and Yaroch AL. (2022). Development of three new multidimensional measures to assess household food insecurity resilience in the United States. Frontiers in Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1048501

 Existing Guidance for Conducting Social Risk Screening in Clinical Settings

Ashbrook A, Essel K, Montez K, and Bennett-Tejes D. (2021). Screen and Intervene: A Toolkit for Pediatricians to Address Food Insecurity.

Additional Measures