Samford University’s Resource Center for Pastoral Excellence (RCPE) is co-sponsoring a workshop aimed at breaking the stigma of moral injury among veterans and their families, with particular focus on veteran suicide which currently averages 18 per day.
The program will be held Sept. 9–10 at First United Methodist Church, Montgomery, and will feature presentations by veterans and a special performance by the acclaimed public health project Theater of War. Rita Brock, author of “Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War,” also will speak. Brock is founding co-director of the Soul Repair Center.
Also co-sponsoring the event is Gateway To Hope, a coalition of chaplains, social workers and faith communities in Alabama.
According to RCPE director Michael Wilson, participants will learn about moral injury and its relationship to post-traumatic stress disorder, challenges of military sexual trauma, and creating safe communities of support for veterans to tell their stories and reflect on them. They also will explore ways to reintegrate veterans into the civilian world without leaving them to suffer in silence.
(Samford)
For more information and to e-register, visit www.samford.edu/rcpe or call 205-726-4064.
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