• STEP Teens joined YBR because these "latch-key" children of New York City commuters experienced feelings of loss and powerlessness about the world around them after September 11. Their goals were to regain hope and to use their strength and leadership to make things better. Their motto became "Overcoming Adversity." Using YBR worksheets and exercises, they taught others how to identify their own sources of optimism and organized community events (poster sessions, workshops, and poetry cafés) to model and share resilience messages. STEP Teens achieved the goal of being vehicles of hope by motivating some of their peers to write original poetry (through the poetry cafés) or to adopt other resilience-building practices.

• SOAR HIGHER : In Middletown, the New Jersey town that suffered the greatest loss of life from the September 11 attacks, the YBR youths' goals were to recognize what they had come through as a community (post 9/11) and to use their strengths to help other surrounding communities with fewer resources. That SOAR HIGHER achieved their goals is clear from the feedback they received from their campaigns. School administrators, teachers, and students have commented that SOAR HIGHER has restored a positive learning environment to the school. One teacher told National Center staff that until the SOAR HIGHER mural was painted, he had not realized how quiet and cheerless the school had become after 9/11. SOAR HIGHER also collected donations for families affected by September 11 and donated resilience-themed library resources to be available after YBR ends.

• Resilience Team : When students from Middletown's North high school attended SOAR HIGHER's Resilience Cabaret (a themed variety show with original student acts), they expressed interest in starting YBR in their school. SOAR HIGHER conducted training for them, and a SOAR HIGHER adult coordinator who had transferred to the North high school helped the new YBR group, the Resilience Team. Their primary achievement was applying what they learned about trauma and resilience to support students after two recent tragedies: the unexpected death of a student at school and the murder of a recent North graduate at the Virginia Tech massacre. The Resilience Team talked with fellow students about their feelings, referred them to resilience resources, such as Hope2Cope's Web diary, and used resilience-themed materials supplied by YBR to help students.

• Hope2Cope: Many Hope2Cope youth had attended the initial training at their families' insistence but soon discovered-through training and exercises-that what they had already learned about coping with grief and loss after September 11 might benefit other teens. They set a goal of letting others know that they are not alone-that teens who have struggled in the past, now have hope to share. They adopted an inspiring tagline, "Every teen needs hope to cope." They reached their goals (recognizing their own resilience and demonstrating their understanding of trauma and resilience) by writing, performing, and recording a song, "Fight or Flight." Their Web diary of inspiring stories and music is available (for teens or anyone seeking hope to cope) at www.opendiary.com/hope2cope.

• HOPE Teens: House of Prayer Episcopal Church was a source of support because teens and their families gathered there on September 11 to watch the fires burning across the river and to pray for the safety of the many relatives and neighbors who commuted daily to or through Manhattan. The HOPE Teens' goals were to help the community regain a positive focus and to celebrate all the good things that life still offers in a post-September 11 world. Among their demonstrated successes, the HOPE Teens teamed up with the Jersey Express Basketball Association and the Newark Bears baseball team to present their "Bounce Back" campaign at home games. Youth shared their resilience messages through presentations, banners, promotional items, and skits.