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RESTORE Helpline
Call: 412-756-3643
Email: help@restore-project.org

*Confidential      *Anonymous      *Free of charge

If you have someone in your life – a colleague, a student, a client, a patient – who you think may be moving from anger to hate or hate or violence, please reach out. There is help available for individuals who are vulnerable to violent extremist ideologies. With the right support and focus on their needs and resources, individuals susceptible to hate and violence can change their behaviors and mindsets and embrace new ways of thinking and acting. Although we believe that everyone has a role to play, no one can or should do this alone. Supporting someone in letting go of hate and violence requires skillful, professional accompaniment. This is what RESTORE offers.

Although we do not offer clinical services, our RESTORE team of coaches combines a diverse set of professional backgrounds – from social work to re-entry coaching, student counseling, mediation, psychotherapy, as well as marriage and family counseling – and has been trained over 6 months (and more than 100 in-person and online training hours) in Violence Prevention Network’s proven approaches, methodologies and social diagnostic tools for working directly with individuals to support their distancing from hate and violent extremist ideologies.

We encourage you to get in touch with the RESTORE team if you are personally or professionally in touch with someone who

– may have an unwillingness or inability to discuss their views (even while perhaps communicating their disrespect or disdain towards certain groups of people)

– may have high levels of hate and anger directed towards abstract entities, the state, or whole groups of people

– believes in conspiracies, pointing to evidence from alternative media sources

– is increasingly isolating themselves from family and/or friends

– seems to be convinced that everyone is against them, and needs to defend themselves (and the use of violence may be the only way he or she sees to do so)

If you are worried that someone you know may be vulnerable to or already has embraced extremist ideology that could lead to violence, please get in touch with us. You can do so anonymously. Often people reach out because they just need some support in figuring out whether there’s reason to be concerned. We’re experts on this and can help.