Virtual course offered through Riverwood Community Chapel

KENT, Feb. 20 – Imagine if you’re a former military member who faced dying or saw a member of your unit killed during a deployment overseas. The Veteran’s Administration estimates that more than 120,000 veterans have died by suicide since 2001, making it the second leading cause of death among post 9/11 vets.

But there’s help.

Reboot Recovery is a faith based, peer-lead Trauma Recovery Program. The program is a twelve-week course of study which contains three different curriculums: Trauma Reboot (trauma healing for everyone), First Responders Reboot (trauma healing for police/fire/EMT and other responders), and Military Reboot (trauma healing for warriors) Courses are provided face-to-face or on-line.

Riverwood Chapel, 1407 Fairchild Ave (Kent), is sponsoring a Military Reboot course beginning on February 25, at 7:30 p.m. The course meets virtually.

“Military Reboot provides practical help for veterans, service members, and families dealing with the mortal and spiritual wounds from service-related trauma,” says Bill Young, a U.S. Air Force veteran and coordinator for the Reboot program at Riverwood Community Chapel. “This course doesn’t provide shortcuts or easy answers. Instead, it focuses on solutions that last.”

Reboot Recovery programs are active in 400-plus locations in different 44 states. The success of the program is not found in its footprint, but in its results. Course attendees have improvements in anxiety, depression, fatigue, flourishing, gratitude, self-efficacy, self-esteem and well-being. 

“Reboot Recovery helps people heal from trauma with results that include marriage reconciliations, decreased divorce rates, decline in substance abuse and falling numbers of suicide,” Young adds.

Anyone interested in registering can do so online by visiting www.rebootrecovery.com. Be sure to click on the Military Reboot tab, and select the Feb. 25 class option on registration.

For more information, contact Young at 330-803-9191.