This chapter discusses several qualitative research studies that were designed to learn about oppressed minorities’ perception of their resiliency. These studies served as the underpinning for the theoretical base of the resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM). That is, the cumulative data collected from the lived experience of diverse research participants gave direction to and became embodied in the anti-oppressive content of the RESM approach to social work practice. The chapter also introduces the theoretical base of the RESM, which stems from a synthesis of risk and resilience, ecological systems, general system, and narrative theories. The model is applied across the four phases of social work practice: engagement (forming a third-space relationship), assessment (cocreating a narrative), intervention (deconstructing and reconstructing the narrative), and evaluation (appraising the progress made during practice). Vignettes of narrative interviews with a young Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient, or Dreamer, illustrate the RESM narrative communication process and how it enhanced client resilience during a life transition as an immigrant to the United States first attended college.