This chapter introduces the Headstart Kernow Digital Resilience Project, a long-term initiative in Cornwall in the UK designed to improve young people’s mental wellbeing and strengthen safeguarding practice in digital environments. Positioned within trauma-informed, harm reduction and ecological frameworks, the project challenges fear-based models of online safety that rely on restriction and punitive responses. Instead, it foregrounds trust, proportionality, and co-production with young people, recognising that digital and offline aspects of life are inseparable. The chapter outlines the development of innovative tools, such as the Online Resilience Tool, and explains the mixed-qualitative, ecosystem-oriented methodology used across the project. It argues that digital resilience emerges from supportive relationships and environments in which young people feel able to seek help without judgement, establishing the foundation for the book’s case studies and wider reflections on cultural change in safeguarding.