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Youth Empowerment Resources 

 

Research Articles 

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1. Building Resiliency in Students 

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/sept96/vol54/num01/Building-Resiliency-in- Students.aspx 

2. Promoting Resilience in Children and Youth 

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.559.7820&rep=rep1&type=pdf 

3. Does Your Classroom Cultivate Student Resilience? 

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/8-pathways-cultivate-student-resilience-marilyn-price-mitchell 

4. Promoting and Building Resilience in Primary School Communities: Evidence from a Comprehensive ‘Health Promoting School’ Approach 

https://eprints.qut.edu.au/1281/1/IJMHP.pdf 

5. The Science of Resilience 

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/03/science-resilience 

6. Building Resilience in Children and Young People 

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/about/department/resiliencelitreview.pdf 

7. Incubated in Terror: Neurodevelopment Factors in the ‘Cycle of Violence’ 

https://childtrauma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Incubated_In_Terror.pdf 

8. The Myth of Resilient Children. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/encountering-america/201302/the-myth-resilient-children 

9. Violence, Trauma and Resilience 

http://cctasp.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/Trauma-Violence-and-Resilience.pdf 

 

Strategies 

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1. Resilience Guide for Parents & Teachers 

 

2. 8 Ways to Help Your Students Build Resiliency 

 

3. 27 Resilience Activities 

 

4. How to Promote resilience in Your Students 

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Resource Websites, Video, & Journals

 

1. Center on the Developing Child Harvard University Resilience Webpage

 

2. Resilience Research Centre 

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3. Victoria State Government Building Resilience Webpage 

 

4. University of Toronto/Scarborough Strengths-Based Resilience Webpage 

 

5. VIDEO: 2014 Interview with Steve Pemberton 

 

Books 

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1. Promoting Resilience in the Classroom: A Guide to Developing Pupils’ Emotional and Cognitive Skills, by Carmel Cefai, 2008 

2. Building Resilient Students: Integrating Resiliency into What you Already Know and Do, by Kate Thomsen, 2002 

3. Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom, by Kristin Souers and Peter A. Hall, 2016 

4. Resiliency in Schools: Making It Happen for Student and Educators, by Mike M. Milstein and Nan Henderson, 2002 

5. Building Student Resilience, K-8: Strategies to Overcome Risk and Adversity, by Gabriel H. Simon, 2012 

6. Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys, by Edward Fergus, Pedro Noguera, and Margary Martin, 2015

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