All photography provided by Charles Higgins

The Resilience Project 501(c)(3) was founded by a survivor of Sexual Assault to whom art was a huge healing modality. Trauma can be intergenerational but healing can start with the individual. It is the hope that this scholarship will celebrate triumph and create further dialogue of the ever-present issue of sexual violence on college campuses and diverse communities.

 

Our VISION

We live in a world where body autonomy is respected and the full individual is cherished and held in the face of their trauma. We live in a world where there are diverse, robust, and accessible resources to treat trauma and its symptoms. This is the world we live and cultivate with our programs.

 

OUR MISSION

The Resilience Project is a research based organization that uses art to invigorate a sense of Triumph in individuals who identify as Survivors of sexual assault. It is our sincere hope to create change in the community through our scholarship, music and art programs. We hope to encourage the presence of diverse services directed to the prevention of sexual assault, as well as celebrate the many ways that survivors are persistent after their trauma.

 

OUR VALUES

  • INTEGRAL INTERACTIONS

  • TRUTH CONSCIOUSNESS

  • TRANSFORMATIONAL WISDOM

  • INTUITIVE KNOWING

  • SELF DISCOVERY

  • PATIENCE WITH AND THROUGH GROWTH PROCESSES

  • GENUINE ROOTED LOVE AND RADICAL SELF-ACCEPTANCE

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus

What We Hope to Achieve

  • To provide roadmaps and resources to survivors after trauma.

  • Create healing communities through art.

  • Use the attention this scholarship program garners to promote advancements for campus survivors in our community

  • Campaign for the institutional funding of Survivor support services in institutions of higher learning.

  • Celebrate the many ways that survivors are persistent after their trauma.

  • Give special attention to the determination and help it takes to graduate after a campus sexual assault

  • Advocate for further support of prevention efforts currently being done on U of A and at PCC.

  • To provide different ways for people to give or receive help.