RESTORE

OVERVIEW OF COURSE

RESTORE is an 8-module resilience and suicide prevention curriculum designed for veteran and community settings. The course moves beyond awareness and crisis response by helping participants understand the systems that often collapse beneath suicidal crisis: identity, belonging, purpose, meaning, moral injury, isolation, and loss of agency. Through live instruction, guided discussion, case application, workbook exercises, local resource integration, and practical planning, participants learn how to recognize collapse earlier, respond to crisis more confidently, strengthen protective factors, and build community-based support structures that help people stay connected before despair becomes fatal. RESTORE is educational and community-support focused. It is not therapy, emergency care, or a substitute for individualized mental health treatment.

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RRI Model

Resilience & Restoration Institute will develop separate suicide prevention and resilience curricula for different audiences, each supported by its own book/resource base, student workbook, tailored delivery format, and local resource integration.

Initial branches:

Veteran Curriculum
Supported by empirical evidence-based analysis of suicidal ideation within the current veteran population and socio-economic context, culminating at doctoral publication. RESTORE provides all materials, veteran workbooks, exercises and take-home supplies. The forthcoming supplemental book publication for veteran Systems Map of Suicide volume 1.1 is projected for December 2026. Built by combat vets, for vets.

Emergency Services Curriculum
Tailored for police, fire, EMS, dispatch, chaplains, peer teams, and command staff, with the emergency services volume projected for April 2027.

Adolescent / Family Curriculum
Future youth- and family-focused adaptation with school, church, parent, and community applicability.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • RESTORE is a research-informed resilience and suicide prevention course developed through the Resilience & Restoration Institute. It is designed to move beyond crisis response and into long-term restoration by strengthening identity, belonging, purpose, moral repair, resilience, and community connection.

  • RESTORE is currently designed for veterans, families, peer leaders, community members, and organizations that want a stronger way to understand and respond to suicide risk. Future RRI curricula will include tailored pathways for emergency services, community/civilian audiences, and adolescent/family support.

  • No. Participants do not need a clinical background, counseling degree, or prior suicide prevention training. The course is built to be understandable, practical, and discussion-based while still being grounded in doctoral research and suicide prevention literature.

  • No. RESTORE is an educational and community-support curriculum. It is not therapy, medical care, emergency intervention, or a substitute for individualized mental health treatment. The purpose is to equip people with language, tools, connection, and community-based prevention strategies.

  • RRI courses can be delivered in person using a mobile classroom format. Training may include live instruction, guided discussion, slides, printed student workbooks, handouts, group exercises, local resource mapping, and practical application activities.

  • A certificate of completion may be provided for participants who complete the required course sessions. This certificate reflects participation in an RRI educational course and does not represent clinical licensure, professional certification, or authorization to provide mental health treatment.

  • RESTORE addresses suicide as more than a mental health issue. Topics include social disconnection, identity loss, moral injury, economic strain, crisis windows, meaning, belonging, faith or values-based restoration, and community prevention. The existing curriculum is structured as an 8-part Community & Veteran Resilience Curriculum with final deliverables focused on personal resilience, community-based prevention, and mission-driven action.

  • Yes. RRI is being developed as a curriculum and publication platform with separate audience-specific pathways. The veteran curriculum is the first major branch, with emergency services, community/civilian, and adolescent/family versions planned or in development.

  • Yes. RRI can be hosted by religious institutions and faith-based community partners. The curriculum can respect the values of the host organization while remaining accessible to participants from different backgrounds.

  • Course length may vary depending on the host site and audience. RESTORE is designed as a multi-session curriculum, but delivery can be adapted for community workshops, veteran groups, retreat formats, or structured classroom-style courses. Full-length course is developed into a weekend course over 16 hours of instruction, but capable of adjusting into a 5-day evening curriculum.

  • Contact RRI to ask about upcoming course dates, enrollment, partnership opportunities, or bringing a course to your organization. Hosted courses can be tailored to the audience, location, and local support network.