Can you teach children resilience? We asked this question at our recent launch of Raising Resilient Kids, a new Partnership to End Addiction initiative to help families raise supported and healthy children.

The launch included the introduction of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Resilient Kids highlighting 10 key protective parenting strategies that research has shown can promote resilience in your children. Some of these strategies may seem like simple, common-sense practices, like sharing your expectations and encouraging healthy risk-taking, but applying them effectively and over time takes a lot of dedication, time, patience and drive.

Our Raising Resilient Kids initiative engages parents, community groups, corporations, schools and health care providers to share resources that help strengthen young people’s mental and physical health, family bonds and school performance.