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Resilience Workgroup

What We're Reading

What is Resilience?
Infamous Mothers by Sagashus Levingston
How Kids Learn Resilience - The Atlantic

The Starfish Story
The Science of Resilience - Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Other Resilience Resources

WI Department of Public Instruction's page on Resiliency

Children’s Mental Health Collective Impact

Resilience Workgroup Goal Statement:

All Wisconsin’s children, youth and their families have accurate and timely information and the supports needed for social emotional development, optimal mental health and resilience, including relationships and social networks that provide friendship, love and hope.

The Resilience Workgroup has four focus areas:

Defining & Promoting Resilience Culture & Language
Building Resiliency in Individuals, Families, and Schools Across the Life Span
Building a Professional Culture of Resilience
Resiliency: Measuring our Progress

Looking for Resilience Resources?

Below are a few favorites. Here is a complete list of resiliency resources.

Jump to resources for:

Children & Youth / Families / Communities / Agencies & Institutions / Systems / Cultural Competencies

For Children & Youth

Learn	Do
Learn about youth development Youth Thrive: Advancing Healthy Adolescent Development and Well-Being.	Learn what makes a resilience child in this interactive game!
This list of Youth Protective and Promotive Factors provides information about key elements of healthy youth.	Emotional Regulation Action Plan - A tool from the WI Department of Public Instruction to support children of all ages learn about their emotions and develop a plan to cope with stressful events. Middle/High School Elementary School Kindergarten to Second Grade
The Center for Healthy Minds' Kindness Curriculum is available for free!	10 best phrases to teach resilience to your kids - From Kidspot.

For Families

Learn	Do
Don't Forget the Families, created by the Search Institute, outlines the importance of family relationships in developing resilience.	Looking to "boost your child's ability to bounce back from life's challenges?" Check out Best Start's Building Resilience in Young Children, a booklet for parents. Available also in French.
	Protective Factors Training from the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
	Join a Parent Café to connect with other families across Wisconsin.

For Communities

Learn	Do
Health, Safety & Resilience: Foundations for Health Equity. A summary document of how Washington State (and other communities) is affected by four scientific concepts: Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Resilience.	Learn what kinds of community interventions can help build resilient children by playing this interactive game!

For Agencies or Institutions

Learn	Do
Guide for Engaging and Supporting Parents Affected by Domestic Violence	Implement the steps organizations can take to introduce resilience into their workplace culture from UNC Business School's "Building a Resilient Organizational Culture." This tool is a concise, business-focused (but sector-agnostic) guide to improving individual and organizational resilience.
Build resilience through learning about brain chemistry and information overload and integrate that information into an organizational culture change with a presentation from the WI Alliance of Infant Mental Health, "Creating an Environment and Culture of Resiliency: Evoking the Best in Others & Ourselves".

For Systems

Learn	Do
Watch: Working toward a more trauma-informed city from Dr. Ken Ginsburg.	(Coming Soon)
REDGen: Check out this Milwaukee community that is building resilience through integrating schools, faith communities, and more to build resilience across systems.

Building a Resilient Culture

Learn	Do
Michael Ungar's "Resilience Across Cultures and Contexts" provides a resiliency frame that is health-focused and culturally-embedded.	Use this Model of Development of Resilience from Arve Gunnestad to build protective factors.
Learn about diversity from the Supporting Families Together Association presentation - "I'm Diverse, You're Diverse, Let's Talk!"

For more information about the Children's Mental Health Collective Impact work, please contact Karen at 608-267-7792 or at Karen.katz@wisconsin.gov.