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If you are a parent, caregiver, teacher or volunteer then you are in the right place!
Use the links below to browse the site, learn more about children, youth and young adults, and find out more about the people behind the Resilience Research Centre.
Read Dr Michael Ungar's blog "Nurturing Resilience" from Psychology Today and raise children to be competent and caring.
Do you care for a child, youth or young adult?
Take the quiz to find out how much resilience he or she shows!
Want to know what Dr Michael Ungar (Co-director of the Resilience Research Centre) is up to?
Find information about new books and future events on his site.
Want to know more about Linda Liebenberg (Co-Director of the Resilience Research Centre)?
Go to her website to find out what she's working on.
Resilience Research Centre
School of Social Work
Dalhousie University
6420 Coburg Road
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, CA
Tel: (902) 494-3050
Email: rrc@dal.ca
Building on our studies across many different countries of the social and physical ecologies (environments) that make resilience more likely, we define resilience as:
Resilience is the capacity of people to navigate to the resources they need to overcome challenges, and their capacity to negotiate for these resources so that they are provided in ways that are meaningful.
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