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The study was conducted to assess the community resilience of Barangay Bayog, Los Baños, Laguna from the COVID-19 pandemic coming from the perspective of the youth using the Community Advancing Resilience Toolkit (CART). The research utilized sequential mixed method; and Key Informant Interview and Survey was implemented to gather data. The respondents‘ sex, age, location, years of residency, and employment was considered and majority of them have participated in the community efforts of COVID 19 mitigation and are aware of the concept and definition of community resilience. Data also showed that among the five domains of CART, Domain 4: Disaster Management [COVID-19] was to be considered a community resilience strength whereas Domain 2: Resource was a community resilience weakness. Furthermore, socio-demographic factors—except age and years of residency—and the explanatory variables have moderate relationship and effect on community resilience. All five domains of CART were present in Bayog and each statement per domain received high percentages of agreements, with Domain 4 leading overall. Overall, Barangay Bayog is resilient from the COVID-19 pandemic as supported by the youth‘s perspective and using the CART framework.