Abstract: The following study identified the internal and external characteristics of homeless adolescents that promote and maintain their resiliency. Eight adolescents, between the ages of 15 and 18, residing in a transitional homeless shelter, were interviewed and administered psychological tests, including the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale, Resiliency Skills and Abilities Scale, and Adolescent Resiliency Identification and Utilization Scale. Their teachers and case managers were also interviewed. The youth studied were found to demonstrate a broad range of traits, resources, and skills that bolstered and reinforced their resiliency. Components of resiliency were categorized among cognitive, behavioral, affective, and interpersonal domains. Cognitive components of resiliency included goal-setting, future orientation, positive projective anticipation, competence, intelligence, information seeking, insight and introspection, and wisdom. Behavioral components of resiliency included creativity, listening to music, assertiveness, independence, and risk-taking. Affective components of resiliency included ambition, motivation, determination, perseverance, the ability to challenge oneself, self-esteem, self-worth, dissociation of affect, and positive or happy disposition. Social components of resiliency included family, peer, and school relationships, sociability, academic involvement, community service, and formation and utilization of relationships for survival. Results suggested that the youth studied: (a) were not negatively affected by their experience of homelessness and benefited from entering a shelter, (b) shared similar traits, resources, and skills associated with resiliency as other high risk youth groups, and (c) demonstrated components of resiliency that overlapped and were interdependent. Recommendations for bolstering resiliency among homeless adolescents were offered in addition to suggestions for future research.