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At Resilience Life Skills Academy, we believe in nurturing the future. We understand that today's youth face unique challenges, so we're dedicated to equipping them with essential life skills beyond traditional education.

We are dedicated to empowering, strengthening, and transforming the lives of our youth into great leaders.

At Resilience Life Skills Academy, educators are professionals in the business world, some with academic backgrounds, and all have proven success in the world of commerce.

Resilience Life Skills Academy

Our mission is to equip all middle and high school students aged 7 - 17 with life skills to lead happy and successful lives.

Schools often need more time to teach these skills due to their state-mandated curriculum. That's why we provide comprehensive life skill education that meets the needs of every student.

Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Our mission is clear: to empower, strengthen, and transform the lives of our youth into great leaders. We're committed to providing young minds with the tools they need to thrive in an ever-changing world.

Our Mission

Empower, Strengthen, Transform

Our Goal

Happy and Successful Lives

Our goal is simple yet profound: We aim to equip all middle and high school students with life skills that will lead to happiness and success. We recognize that schools often need more time to teach these critical skills due to state-mandated curricula.

What Does Resilience Mean?

Think of resilience as a process of bouncing back -- of rising above adversity -- and to do so ideally, with lessons that enable you to do better and handle the next bump in the road.

Resilience is something that can be nurtured as a part of development.

Our Curriculum

Youth Development with Life Skills means growing and developing the skills and connections young people need to participate in society and reach their potential.

At Resilience Life Skills Academy, our curriculum is designed to cover a wide range of essential life skills. We understand that every student is unique, and our approach ensures that we meet each student's individual needs.

Our programs explore love, resilience, and compassion, fostering emotional intelligence and empathy.

We delve into effective communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking, nurturing their ability to navigate the world's complexities.

We focus on conflict resolution, stress management, building self-esteem, fostering emotional resilience, and interpersonal growth.

Meanwhile, it tackles goal setting, financial literacy, and career preparation, paving the way for a future filled with opportunities.

Positive Youth Development

Youth development aims to provide a safe, structural, and conducive environment for youth to express themselves, learn, and grow.

Positive youth development is to strengthen young people’s sense of identity, belief in the future, self-regulation, and self-efficacy, as well as their social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral competence

We cover many life skills, such as critical thinking, emotional intelligence, financial literacy, career preparation, and household maintenance.

Emotional intelligence is critical to a person’s academic performance. Schools often do not have time to teach these skills because they must teach their state-mandated curriculum. Our program is intended for all children.

Our goal is to equip all middle and high school students with life skills to help them be happy and successful in life and improve their academic performance.

• Competence

• Confidence

• Connection

• Character

• Caring

• Belonging

• Mastery

• Independence

• Generosity

Characteristics & Essential Elements

Our Method

1. Physical and Psychological safety: defined as keeping youth from emotionally hurting one another, preventing bullying, offering alternative models for positive social interactions, and solving differences.

2. Appropriate Structure: clear and consistent boundaries and guidelines and appropriate activities must be present to have a balanced and effective structure.

3. Supportive Relationships: genuine, safe, accepting, flexible, reciprocal, and caring.

4. Opportunities to Belong: the extent to which students feel personally accepted, respected, included, and supported by others.

5. Positive Social Norms: how things are done; rules for behaviors, values, and obligations for service.

6. Opportunities to Make a Difference: to improve a situation or condition significantly.

7. Skill Development: identifying your skill gaps and developing and honing these skills. It is important because your skills determine your ability to execute your plans successfully.

8. Integration of Family, School, and Community Efforts: represents the relationships and collaboration between family members, school personnel, and staff of community-based organizations.

Our Founder

Dr. Patricia L. Harris

Dr. Patricia L. Harris is a native of Newport News, Virginia. She has worked for thirty years in human services.

Dr. Patricia L. Harris is a born-again believer. The vision for Resilience Life Skills Academy came from God. She is also a business owner and author.

Dr. Harris has several degrees and is an educator. She believes every child deserves an education that will enable him or her to grow into a successful and self-sufficient adult.

" My responsibility is to equip the students with life skills that will help them to be successful in life. My desire is for our students to become great leaders"

Dr. Patricia L. Harris

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