Stories are a wonderful way to strengthen resiliency factors.
Stories are oral accounts of human events and can be folktales, creation stories, animal stories, culture stories, personal stories, and family stories. Protective or resiliency factors help youth grow strong and healthy amidst trauma, adversity and pressure to abuse and become addicted to alcohol, drugs, and other substances. Stories are a wonderful way to strengthen resiliency factors. Stories are oral accounts of human events and can be folktales, creation stories, animal stories, culture stories, personal stories, and family stories. The Wheel Council uses traditional arts like storytelling as a means to heal social problems such as racism, drug addiction, violence, economic injustice, health crises, child abuse and neglect.