These resources include: "Being able to choose and control emotional responses, particularly to negative situations, without engaging in self-destructive behavior.  This is an internal resource and shows itself through stamina, perseverance, and choices."

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• Depression, hunger and lack of employment sometimes lead to criminal behavior.
• Poverty is a cycle - children learn from their parents how to survive from the government.
• Children in poverty sometimes have problems in school because their parents never had money for education, and they don't have anyone to help them.
• Encarta Article about Poverty
• There is not a direct correlation between suicide and financial stress; however, there is a higher rate of suicide in poverty situations.
• There are usually many causes of a suicide, and the causes are usually internal instead of external.
• The Times of India Article
• Facts About Suicide
• Article on Youth Development
• Poverty is a risk factor that can lead to violence; however, many times violent behavior is the result of several risk factors appearing in a situation, instead of just one.  Examples include abuse, neglect, and poor environments.
• Surgeon General Article on Youth Violence
• Since poverty is a cycle, and there are usually several risk factors involved, there are higher rates of incarceration in situations of poverty than among more affluent circumstances.
• Article on Prison Systems

• This is an example of a Spanish reading unit that teaches acceptance of different cultures/financial statuses. It can increase students' emotional resources and help fight stereotyping of students who live in poverty.