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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander families & communities
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Resiliency Resource Centre
A website for teachers, parents, teachers and others who work with or care for children. Provides information about resilience and how to foster it in children.
ResilienceNet Virtual Library
A collection of full text publications related to the resilience of children and families in the face of adversities.
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Resilience
We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have extraordinary individual, community and family resilience.
Information will be gradually added to this section of the hub to:
- give more information on resilience as a concept
- focus on child and adolescent resilience from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective
- highlight some of the work being done in Australia on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resilience.
Protective factors optimise resilience by enabling a child to more effectively use their resources when faced with difficult circumstances. For example, children can benefit from a community that is committed to enabling skills development in their children, say by helping children to problem solve, to self-soothe, or even how to ask for help. Some resources will be listed in relation to resilience, some contacts given and some fact sheets made available.
Helping children involves supporting their resilience by recognising and promoting such things as their:
- Positive, hopeful and optimistic responses
- Connectedness to others and their social skills
- Capacity for recognising and expressing their own feelings
- Capacity to focus and problem solve as appropriate to their developmental levels
- Sense of self
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