CorStone develops and provides personal resilience programs to improve well-being for youth worldwide, focusing on adolescent girls as critical change-agents in their communities.
We believe that cultivating personal resilience is a foundational step in helping youth to thrive—one which is often missing in development programs worldwide. Our evidence-based programs impact three interdependent factors in wellbeing: emotional health, physical health, and education.
Why Personal Resilience?
Research has shown that personal resilience—the capacity to ‘bounce back’ and thrive in the face of adversity—is not an innate talent or quality. Rather, it’s the result of a set of skills and supports that can be learned, cultivated, and harnessed to transcend poverty, oppression, or depression.
Amplifying self-agency, unleashing potential, and uncovering inner strengths, we focus our efforts on marginalized, economically disadvantaged, and under-served youth, giving them the tools to thrive.
