OUR IMPACT & STORIES
Resources for Resilience offers practical strategies that community members can use to stay healthy and connected during tough times. Learn more about how participants are using these dynamic tools to deepen their resilience and manage the stress of daily life.
In 2025, Resources For Resilience provided over 650 hours of trauma-informed programming to support nearly 6,000 residents, professionals, and volunteers across the 25 Helene-impacted counties.
Reconnect for Resilience™ Trainings
Divia, a MedServe Fellow and AmeriCorps Service Member working in eastern North Carolina, shares how access to our Reconnect for Resilience™ Scholarship Program made a difference in her personal and professional life.
Resources for Resilience Listening Circles
Laysha, a Resources for Resilience Resiliency Educator and Listening Circle Facilitator, talks about the role of Listening Circles in keeping her connected to other helping professionals as they work to manage their own stress and care for the people around them.
Reconnect for First Responders
First responders and frontline healthcare workers know all too well what stress looks like – and they understand the toll it can take on our physical and mental health if left unaddressed over time.
In our Reconnect for Resilience™ workshops, first responders learn how to apply our tools to keep themselves healthy and resilient while working in a high-stress environment.
Listen to what first responders are saying about this unique professional development opportunity here.
“Resources for Resilience provides a solid foundation for people to learn, develop, and use practical tools to manage stress and find health, healing, compassion, and connection.
As a leader, I often hear the myriad of reasons that staff seek out a human service profession and, unfortunately, also hear the other side of the story when they decide to leave the profession they love (due to burnout, stress, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma etc.).
If we, as a community, offer the tools and connection for those staff to stay resilient through adversity, I strongly believe that our retention of well-qualified and compassionate staff would be better, as well as provide a huge perk for new staff coming into the profession to better take care of themselves from the beginning of their careers.
As you can tell, I am passionate about Resources for Resilience and all that it provides to those in the helping professions who we need to stay healthy and resilient to keep up the good work we are all doing.”
Krista E., MSW, LCSWA
Regional Operations Director, RHA Health Services
“As Meridian has learned more about ACEs, the science of resilience and the impact of secondary trauma, all of which are present in our world and our work, we feel it is our responsibility to help address the daily impact stress and trauma have on both our clients and our workforce.
We believe RFR has contributed to the quality of work we do, reduced burnout, and increased retention. Public mental health organizations have so much to hold in the ever-changing climate of the health system, often resulting in staff feeling overwhelmed and burned out. At the same time, organizations are working hard to bring trauma informed modalities to the clients they serve.
Behavioral health staff are passionate and motivated to support their clients in taking good care of themselves and moving through life’s challenges with resilience, however they often do so at the expense of themselves and their own wellbeing. RFR skills offer behavioral health staff resiliency tools they can use in any moment of uncertainly, change, and difficulty.”
Katie G., LCMHCS, LCAS, CCS
Clinical Director, Meridian Behavioral Health
To see more impact stories and testimonials, please visit each individual program page.
