Building resilience, one nervous system at a time.

Since 2017, RFR has been helping people and communities build the skills they need to navigate stress, adversity, and change. Through our programs and partnerships, we bring practical resilience strategies to the places where people live, work, and serve.

Our impact is reflected in the people we reach and the organizations we work alongside, but it goes beyond numbers. It’s seen in the confidence participants gain, the connections they strengthen, and the ways they carry resilience into their everyday lives. Every program is an opportunity to create change that continues long after the training ends.

Every number represents a person, a conversation, or a moment of connection. Together, these numbers give us a glimpse of the reach of RFR’s work and the people who have been part of it.

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Measuring What Matters

We believe it’s important to understand not only how many people we reach, but what difference our work makes. RFR is actively investing in program evaluation and research to better understand the effectiveness of our approach and continue strengthening the work we do.

Evaluating Our Hurricane Helene Response

Following Hurricane Helene, RFR partnered with Prevention Strategies to evaluate the impact of our response. The evaluation provides an independent look at the work and what we learned from supporting communities affected by the storm.

More Prepared and Resilient
Participants reported increased knowledge, confidence, and ability to recognize and respond to stress.

Ready to Use and Share the Tools
Participants found the strategies practical, relevant, and immediately applicable.

Better Equipped to Support Others
Participants reported greater ability to recognize stress and promote resilience in their communities.

“The evaluation demonstrates the value of investing in RFR’s timely, accessible, and scalable approach — one that equips large numbers of people with practical resilience tools and strengthens communities’ capacity for long-term recovery.”

Read the evaluation

More Research Underway

Our work to understand and strengthen the impact of resilience education continues. RFR is currently partnering with universities and program evaluation teams to study the effectiveness of our programs and better understand their impact. We look forward to sharing more as this work is completed and findings become available.

Before Resources for Resilience, I thought resiliency was almost toxic positivity. That’s how I had been taught, like resiliency is just pushing through things, grinning and bearing it. After discovering Resources For Resilience, I shifted my perspective to ‘if you’re feeling amped up, here are a couple tools to calm down and get to base’, or, ‘if you’re feeling shut down, here’s a couple tools to bring you back up to base’.  Because when things go poorly in life, you kind of hope that you’re going to rise to the occasion. But no, the body falls to its level of training. It goes back to its default.

I am really blown away by how much I have learned about myself and others through this work. When you’re taught about your own body and how it responds to stress in layman’s terms, you can then easily articulate it to other people. This changed the way I think about how I manage stress in my day to day, and how I can help others.  And when Helene hit, this work let me become a helper in situations where I normally would have felt helpless.

Julie S.

Participant, Reconnect for Resilience

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