In Fall 2016, 15 students and I were enrolled in Dickinson College’s Building Sustainable Communities class taught by Neil Leary, Director of Dickinson College’s Center for Sustainability Education. The main objective of this course was to engage in a research project with the surrounding community, focusing on community resilience. The end goal of the research was to provide a benchmark measurement of resiliency in Carlisle, Pennsylvania using the City Resilience Index (CRI), developed by Arup with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. In Spring 2017, two students and I continued this research as an independent research project. We focused more deeply on two areas of the community identified as weaknesses by research in the fall. These two areas of study included Health and Wellbeing and Economy and Society. We engaged in conversations with close to 40 community members throughout focus group research. We researched best practices in assessing community resilience by completing a literature review. At the conclusion of our research, we generated a report that has been shared with the community. In addition, the two students and I presented our findings to members of the community. We engaged in a final group dialogue, discussing our research and recommendations for the community in the future.