Resilient Kids Toolkit
Get your free toolkitSimple strategies and activities to help kids feel safe, connected and confident.
The free Resilient Kids Toolkit is filled with easy‑to‑follow strategies and practical activities to support children’s social and emotional wellbeing.
It’s designed to help foster positive relationships, strengthen mental health, and build resilience and self‑awareness.
You’ll find essential, practical guidance to help you support children and navigate stressful events and life’s challenges in educational settings.
The Resilient Kids Toolkit offers a wide range of activities and resources to support children’s emotional wellbeing in learning environments, including:
Self-care plans
Tools that promote wellbeing and support emotional regulation for children and those who care for them.
Understanding and managing emotions
Practical strategies to support children in recognising and regulating their emotions throughout the day.
Connection and communication
Approaches to strengthen relationships through listening, empathy and responsive communication.
Navigating tough times
Guidance to help recognise and respond to trauma, anxiety and grief with confidence and sensitivity.
What is emotional resilience?
And why is it important for our kids?
Resilience is a person’s ability to recover and heal after tough times. For children, this could involve a range of experiences – from potentially stressful events, like changing schools or moving house, through to traumatic events, such as a family breakdown, natural disasters, or death.
Through a variety of nurturing and responsive interactions, you can help your child to understand, express and manage their thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
Young people who are resilient not only cope better with the challenges presented in everyday life, but they also have the skills and tools that will help them deal with more complex challenges later in life.
A closer look inside the guide
With Allied Health Clinical Lead, Dagney Hopp
Find out more about what’s included in the Resilient Kids Toolkit guide, and how these activities, strategies and guides can help build more resilient kids in the wake of natural disasters and other trauma.
The Resilient Kids Toolkit harnesses the collective expertise of our multidisciplinary team and contains important resources and insights from our incredible partners.
This project has been made possible with the generous support of the Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch Foundation.