How Prevention Builds Resilience

Too often, wellbeing conversations focus on support after a crisis. HAPHE flips the script: we focus on prevention teaching balance and diversification of emotional energy before trauma and anxiety take hold.

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Why prevention matters

• It’s faster to protect than to repair.

• Students who learn balance early avoid spirals that can take years to heal.

• Prevention reduces the weight placed on counselling services, leaving them available for those who truly need them.

The resilience link

Prevention teaches us students to spread our energy across multiple connections and activities. This builds resilience because setbacks are absorbed rather than magnified. Over time, resilience becomes a habit: students learn that life will change, but balance makes change survivable.

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The takeaway

Resilience doesn’t appear in a crisis it’s built in the choices we make daily. Prevention gives students the tools to face change without being overwhelmed. At HAPHE, that’s the heart of our work: turning prevention into resilience.

Change begins in small circles. See how HAPHE began and spread, and explore how prevention builds resilience.

 Learn to recognise triggers of student trauma, and discover how to start your own HAPHE team on campus.

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