Moral Injury Support Network Podcast

Steve Alpert is an accomplished artist who is here on this episode to discuss his Proudly She Served Gallery. Here is a brief description from Steve's website "The surface of the canvas is the focal point of my hopes, dreams, aspirations. It is that precise place in the physical world where I express my deepest passions for the beauty of this Earth. Communicated through the layers of ground-up minerals are images that bring honor and respect to the lionhearted individuals who serve others, extolling the virtues of ordinary people who deliberately put themselves into extraordinary circumstances."

Watch the video with the portraits at: https://youtu.be/tB00i9_0M0c

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/

Support the show: https://chaplainconsultants.com/donate/. 

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Steve Alpert is an accomplished artist who is here on this episode to discuss his Proudly She Served Gallery. Here is a brief description from Steve's website "The surface of the canvas is the focal point of my hopes, dreams, aspirations. It is that precise place in the physical world where I express my deepest passions for the beauty of this Earth. Communicated through the layers of ground-up minerals are images that bring honor and respect to the lionhearted individuals who serve others, extolling the virtues of ordinary people who deliberately put themselves into extraordinary circumstances."

Watch the video with the portraits at: https://youtu.be/jFwTI6hHi4U. 

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

On this episode we will speak with Katie Ross and Katie Civiletto Stenger about a variety of topics including: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder in Veterans, Access to care, Navigating healthcare outside the VA, Continuum of Care, and much more. 

Katie Ross is a seasoned professional in the veteran and military space, she has dedicated her career to Serving Those Who Serve. Katie currently serves as the Director of Veterans Services for Summit Behavioral Health Care’s Tactical Recovery Program. Katie worked to design the Tactical Recovery, this program was created because very few addiction and mental health centers are genuinely qualified in understanding and treating Veterans. Far too often, Veterans do not receive the level of treatment they deserve from people who understand the full impact of their service- she wanted to change this. For her, this work is personal, Katie is a seasoned military spouse, and grew up as a military brat. Her dedication to serving those who serve is exemplified in both her professional roles and volunteer roles in the community. 

Katie Civiletto Stenger is a force multiplier in the veteran community. Katie now serves as a National Veterans Services Coordinator for Summit Behavioral Health Care’s Tactical Recovery Program serving veterans in need of residential treatment for mental health and addiction. Katie has spent nearly a decade working with veterans and their loved ones to improve access to care and the services provided to veterans, service members and their loved ones. Katie has served in case management, project management, and  care coordination roles over the past ten years. In 2011, Katie fell into veterans services through a family friend who struggled with what we now know as Moral Injury. At that time, accessing services for veterans who were struggling with reintegration, PTSD and MI was complex and lacked access. Her career focus shifted to address gaps in services and barriers to care for the veteran and military population in relation to mental health needs. While it took her some time to realize, she grew up in a strong military family with grandparents in both WWI and the Korean war. Though she wasn’t fortunate enough to hear either of their stories first hand. Katie is an alumna of Cornell University's Sloan Program in Health Administration

Resources:

Tactical Recovery: www.tacticalrecovery.com 

 Tactical Recovery residential program

Psycharmor: https://psycharmor.org/  

Code of Support: https://www.codeofsupport.org/ 

The Independence Fund: https://independencefund.org/ 

Semper Fi Fund: https://semperfifund.org/ 

Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) Resource Center: https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/wwp-resource-center 

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

On this episode we will speak with Katie Ross and Katie Civiletto Stenger about a variety of topics including: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder in Veterans, Access to care, Navigating healthcare outside the VA, Continuum of Care, and much more. 

Katie Ross is a seasoned professional in the veteran and military space, she has dedicated her career to Serving Those Who Serve. Katie currently serves as the Director of Veterans Services for Summit Behavioral Health Care’s Tactical Recovery Program. Katie worked to design the Tactical Recovery, this program was created because very few addiction and mental health centers are genuinely qualified in understanding and treating Veterans. Far too often, Veterans do not receive the level of treatment they deserve from people who understand the full impact of their service- she wanted to change this. For her, this work is personal, Katie is a seasoned military spouse, and grew up as a military brat. Her dedication to serving those who serve is exemplified in both her professional roles and volunteer roles in the community. 

Katie Civiletto Stenger is a force multiplier in the veteran community. Katie now serves as a National Veterans Services Coordinator for Summit Behavioral Health Care’s Tactical Recovery Program serving veterans in need of residential treatment for mental health and addiction. Katie has spent nearly a decade working with veterans and their loved ones to improve access to care and the services provided to veterans, service members and their loved ones. Katie has served in case management, project management, and  care coordination roles over the past ten years. In 2011, Katie fell into veterans services through a family friend who struggled with what we now know as Moral Injury. At that time, accessing services for veterans who were struggling with reintegration, PTSD and MI was complex and lacked access. Her career focus shifted to address gaps in services and barriers to care for the veteran and military population in relation to mental health needs. While it took her some time to realize, she grew up in a strong military family with grandparents in both WWI and the Korean war. Though she wasn’t fortunate enough to hear either of their stories first hand. Katie is an alumna of Cornell University's Sloan Program in Health Administration

Resources:

Tactical Recovery: www.tacticalrecovery.com 

 Tactical Recovery residential program

Psycharmor: https://psycharmor.org/  

Code of Support: https://www.codeofsupport.org/ 

The Independence Fund: https://independencefund.org/ 

Semper Fi Fund: https://semperfifund.org/ 

Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) Resource Center: https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/programs/wwp-resource-center 

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Jessica Greenbaum got in touch with us because decades after becoming an established poet and a teacher of poetry with three books and national recognition, she decided art can’t do everything and went back to school to become a social worker. Melding the fields of poetry and social work, she runs workshops for communities who have experienced trauma and she wanted to offer one to people who have considered themselves to have sustained moral injury. She has run such workshops for 9/11 First Responders, under the auspices of NYU Langone’s Medical Center; for people who have left Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy, under the auspices of a service organization for that community called Footsteps, and for adult survivors of childhood brain tumors, under the auspices of the Child Brain Tumor Foundation. Inside academia she has taught at Barnard College and Vassar, and she also designs classes around Jewish text for two New York synagogues. She’s here to answer the question of why poetry people who feel they have sustained moral injury and how does it work?

Resources:

website: https://poemsincommunity.org/

bibliography

Burack-Weiss, Lawrence & Mijangos, editors, Narrative in Social Work Practice; the Power and Possibility of Story (Columbia University Press, 2017)

Coleman, Elizabeth J, editor, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon, 2019)

Collins, Billy, editor, Poetry 180; A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)

Dungy, Camille T, editor, Black Nature; Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (U. Georgia Press, 2009)

Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery (Basic, 1997)

Hirsch, Edward, A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma (North Atlantic, 1997)

Press, Eyal, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (FSG, 2021)

Stavans, Ilan, editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (FSG, 2013)

van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score; Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Viking, 2014)

Plays at the end of each episode. 

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The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Jessica Greenbaum got in touch with us because decades after becoming an established poet and a teacher of poetry with three books and national recognition, she decided art can’t do everything and went back to school to become a social worker. Melding the fields of poetry and social work, she runs workshops for communities who have experienced trauma and she wanted to offer one to people who have considered themselves to have sustained moral injury. She has run such workshops for 9/11 First Responders, under the auspices of NYU Langone’s Medical Center; for people who have left Jewish Ultra-Orthodoxy, under the auspices of a service organization for that community called Footsteps, and for adult survivors of childhood brain tumors, under the auspices of the Child Brain Tumor Foundation. Inside academia she has taught at Barnard College and Vassar, and she also designs classes around Jewish text for two New York synagogues. She’s here to answer the question of why poetry people who feel they have sustained moral injury and how does it work? 

Resources:

website: https://poemsincommunity.org/

bibliography

Burack-Weiss, Lawrence & Mijangos, editors, Narrative in Social Work Practice; the Power and Possibility of Story (Columbia University Press, 2017)

Coleman, Elizabeth J, editor, Here: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon, 2019)

Collins, Billy, editor, Poetry 180; A Turning Back to Poetry (Random House, 2003)

Dungy, Camille T, editor, Black Nature; Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (U. Georgia Press, 2009)

Herman, Judith, Trauma and Recovery (Basic, 1997)

Hirsch, Edward, A Poet’s Glossary (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)

Levine, Peter, Waking the Tiger; Healing Trauma (North Atlantic, 1997)

Press, Eyal, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (FSG, 2021)

Stavans, Ilan, editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (FSG, 2013)

van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score; Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Viking, 2014)

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Dr. Daniel Roberts and Mia Ricks have an in-depth conversation about the war in Afghanistan and how it impacts the field of Moral Injury.  

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Dr. Daniel Roberts and Mia Ricks have an in-depth conversation about the war in Afghanistan and how it impacts the field of Moral Injury.  

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Part two of our interview with Virginia Cruse is an episode you do not want to miss! 

Let's Talk Virginia Cruse

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965. 

Virginia Cruse is the author of, The Soldier’s Guide to PTSD: How to No-Sh*t Reclaim Your Life, a Soldier-to-Soldier guide for overcoming PTSD and Moral Injury that gives step-by-step guidance on how Service Members can take their lives back. 

Dr. Daniel Roberts and Mia Ricks have an honest, eye-opening discussion with Virginia Cruse on Moral Injury and PTSD. 

Let's Talk Virginia Cruse. 

Conference Replay Link: https://chaplainconsultants.com/2021-moral-injury-conference/2021-comprehensive-moral-injury-conference-replay/

The Tubman Chaplain Network (TCN) is a network dedicated to matching qualified women chaplains with current and veteran servicewomen in need of spiritual counseling for moral injuries suffered during their military service. To learn more about the network and how to apply, go to: https://chaplainconsultants.com/tubman-chaplain-network/. Use the passcode: 34663965.