Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience News

Dr. Michael Dolezal, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience, has recently received a grant to conduct a study investigating how the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs is...
I am going to make a bold statement: “We have not recovered from the pandemic!!”  Lately, I’ve been talking with many people about this idea. I’m surprised by how many resonate with the message. In regular disasters, there is...
The Community Training and Empowerment Division takes great pride in offering resilience and coping skills training to both incoming freshmen and current students at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). This past summer, our...
After years of planning and anticipation, Milestones Resilience Care, operated by the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at UCCS, is finally open and seeing clients. The initial clients, a group of Veterans from...
Dr. Heather Littleton, Director of Research Operations at the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience, is serving as co-investigator on a recently funded $600,000 grant from the William T. Grant Foundation. This grant, led by...
A recent study by Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience researchers, Dr. Heather Littleton and Dr. Michael Dolezal, along with Dr. Melissa Decker of the Washington DC VMAC, titled...
With grant funding from the El Pomar Foundation, the technology team at the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience has developed a sophisticated new software assessment system designed to measure the overall well-being and improve...
Department of Psychiatry (Stress, Trauma, Adversity Research, and Treatment – “START” Center) on a groundbreaking initiative called the Colorado Alliance for Resilient and Equitable Systems (CO-CARES). This alliance, which is...
The Community Training and Empowerment (CTE) division of the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience has been working closely with various military organizations to provide education and training on trauma, resilience, and peer support. Their efforts are...
A group of researchers from the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at UCCS, including Drs. Michael Dolezal, Heather Littleton, and Chip Benight, alongside Dr. Ashley Allen from the University of North Carolina Pembroke, have written a paper about...