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'community Resilience' Highlights The Importance Of Resilience, Or The Set Of Assets That Allow A Person Or Place To Recover When Adversity Hits, By Illustrating The Policies And Stories Of Lived Experience Surrounding Health Equity. Whether That Adversity Is Acute - Such As An Environmental Disaster Or An Abuse Of Police Power - Or Chronic - Such As That Engendered By Poverty And Racism - Local Innovation And Community Engagement Are Key To Nurturing Resilience And Promoting Health Equity. 'community Resilience' Positions Storytelling And Narrative Shifts As Essential To Influencing Our Perceptions Of Who Deserves Empathy Or Support, And Who Does Not, By Examining The Systemic Barriers To Resilience And The Opportunities To Reshape The Landscape To Overcome Those Barriers. The Storytellers -- Data And Lived Experiences Both Inform Well-being -- A New Narrative On Gun Violence -- Immigrants In America: Stories Of Trauma And Resilience -- The Toxic Impact Of Life Behind Bars -- Responding To The Opioid Epidemic -- Adressing Trauma And Building Resilience In Children: Science And Practice -- Home, The Heart Of Place -- Health Care Institutions Step Up To Support Resilient Communities -- Strengthening The Response To Disasters And Trauma -- Houston Comes Together After Hurricane Harvey -- The Environmental Justice Imperative -- Digital Data, Ethical Challenges -- Investing In Social Determinants: Fresh Perspectives On The Returns. Alonzo L. Plough. Also Issued In Print: 2021. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 225-243) And Index.