DE-CRUIT is offering a free veteran theater arts workshop that will run on Tuesday & Thursday nights from September 28 to October 14.

DE-CRUIT is a veteran-led, nationally recognized program that uses techniques from theater arts and verses from Shakespeare to support healthy, productive lives for military veterans. 

For more information, contact:

Ayesha Ganguly

[email protected]

1-206-612-2509

Click here for the program flyer.

The new Veterans Crisis Line is 988. 

They have published a step-by-step guide to saving the number into your phone.

For more information about the Veterans Crisis Line, visit the website here.

The US Deparment of Veterans Affairs encourages you to Make the Connection with veterans who understand your struggles because they've been there too.  Discover how veterans like you have overcome life's challenges. 

Don't be afraid to reach out.  Make the Connection today!

You can also find local support resources here.

WorriedAboutaVeteran.org (WAV) is an innovative website that was developed as a resource for family members and loved ones of military Service members and Veterans in New York State. Its purpose is to support families with information and resources around firearm safety and lowering suicide risk.

This website is the culmination of dedicated efforts by the New York State Governor’s Challenge team over the past two years. A comprehensive approach to the creation of this website included several public and private partnerships and collaborations with the co-creators of Counseling for Lethal Means (CALM) Training. Incorporating perspectives from families and Veterans with lived experience was critical.  Thirty interviews were conducted with family members and loved ones who lost a Veteran to firearm suicide, experienced a Veteran firearm suicide attempt, and/or lived with a Veteran who owned firearms.

This website includes video vignettes of family situations involving firearms including examples of how to detect concerning behaviors, start conversations about safety, ask for help, and navigate safe storage options.

Are you worried about a veteran?

Visit the WAV website here.

Team RWB has joined Humana Military's Military Health and Resilience Collective Impact Project alongside the Military Family Advisory Network and Blue Star Families.  The collective is designed uniquely to provide holistic support to military families, focusing in particular on physical health, mental health, and influencing policy.  The collective has launched Operation Family Resiliency (OFR) with the goal of advancing military families through physical, nutritional, mindfulness and sleep tools.

Click here for more information.

Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) is a therapeutic intervention for those struggling with PTSD that works to dissociate clients from trauma memories. Workshops focused on RTM instruction will be held in July for mental health professionals looking to incorporate RTM into their clinical practice and graduate students interested in learning more about this effective intervention technique. Most licensed professionals can receive 21 Continuing Education Units for completing this workshop.

Scholarships for free tuition are available.

To learn more and register, click here.

DE-CRUIT is offering a veteran theater arts workshop that will run on Monday nights from July 18 to August 22.

DE-CRUIT is a veteran-led, nationally recognized program that uses techniques from theater arts and verses from Shakespeare to support healthy, productive lives for military veterans. 

Not only is the program free, but it also pays veteran participants $200 for their participation.

For more information, contact [email protected].