What is Resilience?

The ability to thrive, adapt and cope despite tough and stressful times.

Raising Resilient Oklahomans – Our Resilience Initiative

Since October 2017, the Foundation has been building this Resilience initiative we call Raising Resilient Oklahomans which now has three major components: Resilience Documentary Screenings, Self-Healing Communities Network and NEAR Science – Beyond ACEs training. 

To resource and nurture this network, we add the Community Resilience Trainers, a group of “master trainers’ who deliver the NEAR Science – Beyond ACEs training across the state. Our focus is on helping to build cross-sector teams and/or bringing together existing teams to work more efficiently and effectively together in strengthening and healing our communities.  

“If we can weave this science through the different professions and put it into the hands of people, they will do very wise things with it!” 

Laura Porter, ACE Interface

InBrief: The Science of Resilience

with the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University