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Through Intentional Curriculum, Rising Up Together Empowers Youth to:
FIND PURPOSE
BUILD RESILIENCE
CONNECT
A sense of CONNECTION helps to build RESILIENCE through engagement with the world to find our PURPOSE.
Discover your purpose and build resilience!
Results of Positive Mental Health and Well-Being
IMPROVED PHYSICAL HEALTH
MEANING BEHIND OUR WORK
INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
Connect and develop friendships!
FUTURE EMPLOYMENT
OUR MISSION
OUR VISION
To empower youth with the tools, relationships, and experiences needed to become confident, connected, and resilient.
A world where every young person has the support and skills to thrive.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
What Does Research Say?
Building resilience is shown to increase the body's capacity to resist disease and prevent adverse health outcomes. Lower resilience is associated with increased depressive and anxiety symptoms. Quality interpersonal relationships have also been associated with greater resilience, leading to fewer depression symptoms.
The curriculum in The Resilient Youth Program is tailored with the intention of building resilience while establishing positive connections amongst children and youth.
Research has indicated that low self-worth, low social acceptance, low trust beliefs in others, and low trusting in early childhood increased the odds of an increase in the trajectory of loneliness over the life span.
General sense of belonging has been shown to be correlated with depressive symptoms and outcomes. Having a greater sense of belonging through connection is correlated with being a protective factor for mental health, improving purpose in life, happiness and confidence.
The Resilient Youth Program works to increase youth's capacity for establishing meaningful connection and self-purpose. Establishing connection and exploring purpose through social relationships can promote social acceptance and trust.
For more information:
Fisher LB, Overholser JC, Ridley J, Braden A, Rosoff C. From the Outside Looking In: Sense of Belonging, Depression, and Suicide Risk. Psychiatry. 2015;78(1):29-41. doi:10.1080/00332747.2015.101586
Parr EJ, Shochet IM, Cockshaw WD, Kelly RL. General Belonging is a Key Predictor of Adolescent Depressive Symptoms and Partially Mediates School Belonging. School Mental Health. 2020;12(3):626-637. doi:10.1007/s12310-020-09371-0
Torgerson CN, Love HA, Vennum A. The buffering effect of belonging on the negative association of childhood trauma with adult mental health and risky alcohol use. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment. 2018;88:44-50. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2018.02.005
A sense of CONNECTION helps to build RESILIENCE through engagement with the world to find our PURPOSE.
Cycle of Our Goal
OUR APPROACH
STRONG CONNECTIONS
CLEAR PURPOSE
LASTING RESILIENCE
EVERYDAY HABITS
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