This study utilizes insights from resilience presuppositions, combined with perspectives from the theory of everyday tactics, to highlight strategies of creative adaptation, methodologies of survival, and ways of making do used by children and youth in urban residential slums and informal settlements of a Kenyan city to cope and deal more effectively with adversity. Based on qualitative inquiry, results show that individual attributes, bonding to family and support systems, involvement in extracurricular activities, lower levels of parental discord, fewer adverse life events, and being less involved with delinquent peers constitute protective factors that enhance resiliency.

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