CULTIVATING RESILIENCE

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Cultivating Resilience is a community-led, trauma-informed public health education and support initiative. We share plain-language public health information, practical tools, and community reflections guided by lived experience. Our focus is simple: what helps people function, recover, and reconnect after crisis.

We don’t do toxic positivity. We do real-world skills, credible information, and steady community connection, built around what recovery actually looks like: disrupted systems, stress overload, grief, and the need for grounded support.

Cultivating Resilience grew out of disaster recovery and the long, uneven aftermath that follows. In the hardest moments, what kept people going wasn’t a perfect system, it was community: neighbors sharing generators, rides, food, phones, shelter, information, and comfort when official pathways were delayed, confusing, or inaccessible.

That experience made something clear: resilience isn’t a personality trait. It’s a practice. It’s built through mutual aid, trust, and small, consistent actions that help people get through the next hour, the next day, the next season.

A world where communities recovering from trauma and disaster have practical, culturally grounded support and credible information, and where resilience is strengthened through connection, mutual aid, and community-led healing.

Nikima Glatt, DrPH(c), PMHNP-BC
Nikima is a board-certified nurse practitioner with 15+ years in emergency nursing, training in critical care, disaster, and emergency response, and lived experience of disaster recovery after the Lahaina wildfires. She is of Kanyen’kehá:kaheritage and is committed to lifelong learning, cultural reconnection, and community-led healing grounded in humility and respect.
“Behind me are my ancestors giving me strength.”

Stephen Glatt, PhD
Stephen is a psychiatric genetic epidemiologist and neurobiologist who supports Cultivating Resilience’s evidence-informed approach, program development, and administration. He contributes scientific insight and steady behind-the-scenes support to help strengthen mental health education and resilience-focused programming.

Cultivating Resilience provides education and peer support. We do not provide emergency services or substitute for medical, psychiatric, legal, or crisis care. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact local emergency services. In the U.S., you can call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.