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There is a stigma of mental illness associated with behavioral health. By focusing on educational practice, awareness is created without the stigma. Learning and practicing skills that manage stress help us to better deal with our challenges. We become more resilient.

These resilience practices emerged from a program originating from the University of Arizona and Southern Arizona VA Health Care System to address the reintegration of military veterans into an academic setting through resilience-based education. The practices are consistent with the recommendations of the World Health Organization for suicide prevention. Building upon the success of the veterans program, the semester-long classes have been redesigned for the general student population, medical education, and even as short-encounter instruction for families and first responders, to include EMS, Fire, and Law Enforcement. The resources presented on this site are intended to aid you in your personal resilience and to serve as foundational material for course development. You are encouraged to use, adapt, improve upon, and share these resources in the spirit of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

We are a noncommercial educational endeavor providing best-practice and evidence-based methods intended to address our stressful lifestyles. Our intents are to note the sources of research as a further resource for you the reader and to recognize the efforts of the researchers. If we have overlooked or improperly identified research efforts, please contact us. Because we are unfunded, our ability to exhaustively test and evaluate program in diverse settings is limited. We therefore encourage you to investigate and share in a manner that allows others to both replicate and generalize results to best meet their desired applications and needs. Please respect the information and materials presented on this site, in particular the five skills resilience and resources, that are developed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). These materials are provided to encourage development and research to improve the quality of our lives.

Contact: Phil Callahan PhD, resilienthacks@gmail.com

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