Resiliency Initiative’s mission is to advance the well-being of children, adolescents and their families by generating knowledge about resilience-based assessment and practice and promoting its application through both empirical research and applied community-based initiatives. 

Resiliency Initiatives collaborates with various service providers, health-based organizations, government agencies and academic institutes with the goal of promoting long-term community and social change that supports the well-being and healthy development of children and families.

To accomplish this mission, Resiliency Initiatives engages in the following activities:

• designs tools and evaluation protocols based on resiliency factors/strengths, 
• provides training to promote resilience-based practice and facilitates its application,
• collaborates with and supports the development of program/community-based initiatives,
• conducts both applied and scientific research, and 
• actively engages in academic publications.