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About the RESilience Initiative
The goals of RESilience are to address the effects of racism, racial bias and discrimination through supporting and educating parents and increasing attention among researchers, research funders, practitioners, educators and other stakeholders.
RES Parental Stress Working Group
Meet the working group on race-related parental stress.
Youth Voices
Learn about what the RESilience Initiative is through a youth perspective, translating the technical terms and research in RES into easier-to-understand language for parents/caregivers and their children to communicate.
Racial Stress and Self-care: Parent Tip Tool [PDF]
Experiences of racism build on each other and can chip away at your emotional, physical and spiritual resources as a parent, contributing to race-related stress.
Racial Stress and Self-care: Parent Tip Tool
Reading and RES: Parent Tip Tool
Reading books with your child is a key way to start and continue to have conversations about race and ethnicity.
Choosing and Using Books to Discuss Race and Ethnicity [PDF]
Uplifting Families Through Healthy Communication About Race [PDF]
Racial Ethnic Socialization is a process through which children learn about race and ethnicity.
Engaging My Child: Parent Tip Tool
Children are taught to notice differences between shapes and colors from a young age. Consequently, they also start noticing differences in the people around them. Parents are critical in guiding how they handle these differences.
RESilience Books
Reading and discussing books can be an important tool at all ages for promoting strength, health and well-being. Books and the worlds that readers create serve as safe spaces for youth of color to explore their identity and appreciate their race.
Researcher Network
We hope to connect researchers, practitioners and other experts interested in RES and to provide an easy venue for you to interact, to collaborate and to share items of interest.
Parent Resources
Blog posts, organizations and websites containing information and racial and ethnic socialization.
What Is RESilience?
RES includes the direct, explicit messages children receive about the existence of racism and the meaning of race, as well as related indirect or implicit messages.
RESilience
Through racial and ethnic socialization, parents influence 'children's racial identity and self-concept, beliefs about the way the world works, and repertoire of strategies and skills for coping with and navigating racism and inter- and intra-racial relationships and interactions.'
