The Many Faces of Resilience:

How You Can Build Resilience in Yourself and Others

The factors that build resilience:

• Strong Relationships
• Positive view of yourself and your strength and abilities
• Capacity to make realistic plans
• Skills in communication and problem solving
• Capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses

 

Speaker: Lesia Cartelli, Angel Faces ​ Cartelli is the founder and chief executive officer of Angel Faces, a national nonprofit based in California that provides healing retreats and ongoing support to adolescent girls and young women with severe burn/trauma injuries to achieve their optimum potential and develop meaningful relationships for themselves, their families and their communities. In 1991 she launched and directed the first camp for burn-injured children in southern California. After 20 years of spearheading support services (at University of California, San Diego and University of California, Irvine Regional Burn Centers) in 2003 she founded Angel Faces for trauma/burn patients.

Recent Hero of the Week in PEOPLE Magazine

"When Lesia Cartelli was 9 years old, she was severely burned in a gas explosion at her grandparents’ home in East Detroit.

She’d been playing in the basement with her cousin when the gas leak ignited, blasting many of the nine family members who were inside the house across the street. Cartelli, who was buried in rubble, climbed out of the destruction on her own, crawling outside to roll in the dirt and snow to put out the flames on her small body." Read her full story on PEOPLE

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