Community Resilience Builder Program 2025-2026
Section outline
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Protective Factors
Collective Well-being
Democratizing
Social Imaginaries
Resilience and Regeneration-
Community
Annotated Bibliography
Benjamin, Ruha. Imagination: A Manifesto. First edition, W.W. Norton & Company,2024.
“Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University professor, insists that imagination isn't a luxury. It is a vital resource and powerful tool for collective liberation. Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive.” – Publisher’s description
brown, adrienne maree, and Janine De Novais. Loving Corrections. AK Press, 2024.
“Loving Corrections is a collection of love-based adjustments and reframes to grow our movements for liberation while navigating a society deeply fractured by greed, racism, and war.” – Publisher’s description
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. First edition, One World, 2024
“Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.” -Publisher’s description
Ungar, Michael. Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success. Second Edition, Sutherland House, 2019.
“The science of resilience shows us that our lives can get better, and most people's lives do get better, but not because of what motivational speakers are selling. It is true that as human beings, we have internal resources to help us thrive in the most emotionally and physically damaging situations, but those internal resources are seldom of much use unless we are also given the external resources we need to succeed. Here's the problem in a nutshell: we have fallen in love with the persona of the rugged individual. We need to give more consideration to the resourced individual. Rugged individuals make great television; resourced individuals make good science.” – Change Your World
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"We hear on-the-ground stories from two different communities building resilience in the wake of serial disasters."
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From the CDC, this index page will be a starting point to learning about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the risk and protective factors for individuals, families and communities.
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Learn how to identify and assess community concerns, needs, and assets. Chapter 3 from the Community Tool Box at the University of Kansas.
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Imagining America (IA) is an organization dedicated to bringing artists and scholars together to create a more just and caring world through community engagement including storytelling, art and the humanities, and of course, imagination.
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A conversation between the legendary activists.
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