Tools for Resilience

Expert-Tips-for-Resilience-Cards
You can print these eight cards to make your own resilience deck.

Resilience Flyer
This flyer, from the NJ DCF Office of Resilience, is available in both English and Spanish, offers an at a glance definition of resilience as well as some resilience building skills.

Social Wellness Checklist
The National Institutes of Health offers this three-page checklist with some tips for connecting with others

Cultivating Well-Being: Well-Becoming and Resiliency
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services shares a publicly available 56 page guidance document that provides definitions of well-being and well-becoming, with guiding principles for each. They describe resiliency theory, a framework for understanding how individuals, families, communities and systems can adapt, recover and even thrive in the face of adversity, challenges and significant life stressors.

Building Staff Co-Regulation to Support Healthy Relationships in Youth
This 22-page guide is designed for project directors and practitioners providing relationship education for youth and young adults. It is intended to help programs integrate the science of self-regulation development into existing services through co-regulation, inspire programs to embed a co-regulation framework and strategies into their service delivery approach and share practical takeaways and lessons learned to help guide the integration of co-regulation into other programs.