RESTORE

Celebrate yourself this Pride Month, no matter your orientation! Get confidential, low or no-cost services at the Center for Sexual Health and Wellness. For more information, visit: https://buff.ly/pFdHrtT

🌈 Pride is a celebration of resilience, joy, and the right to live openly and authentically. At a time when transgender people continue to face discrimination, exclusion, and attacks on their rights, creating affirming and supportive spaces is more important than ever.

At RESTORE, we are committed to fostering environments where trans, nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ people are respected, valued, and safe. Our SafeZone Training equips individuals, workplaces, and organizations with the tools to better understand gender identity and expression, challenge harmful stereotypes, and build communities rooted in dignity, inclusion, and belonging.

This Pride Month, and every month, we stand with trans communities and all LGBTQ+ people. Ask us about SafeZone Training and join us in creating spaces where everyone can be seen, heard, and celebrated for who they are. 💜🏳️‍⚧️🌈

Healing often involves a creative process. It can help heal deep wounds to write, paint, color, sing, dance, sculpt, craft or create in other ways. RESTORE is here for every part of the healing journey.

💙Heal the world together
💙Speak from the heart
💙Creating heals the soul

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Try this simple mindfulness exercise to check-in with yourself and bring awareness to your thoughts.

💙Focus - Pick something to focus on (ex. breath, walking, eating, doing the dishes.
💙Note - What makes you lose focus? What do you start to think about?
💙Return - Bring your mind back to your original focus.
💙Kindness & Patience - be gentle with yourself when you lose focus. Observe your thoughts with awareness, not judgement.

RESTORE is always here for you. Our mental health team offers FREE support to survivors and their loved-ones.

This Memorial Day, we honor those we’ve lost while recognizing that grief, trauma, and PTSD can impact many in different ways.
Coping looks different for everyone - rest, connection, reflection, and support all matter. Be gentle with yourself and others today. 🩵

Everyone has the right to access RESTORE services - our website, social media pages and our hotline are always available.

💻Help is a click away.
📱24/7 Free & confidential hotline.
🖱️www.restoresas.org has resources.
🩵You are important.

Trauma comes out sideways: that means that a person can have any kind of reaction to traumatic events in their lives and it is completely normal to have that happen. We are there for you on our 24/7 free and confidential hotline if your trauma is coming out sideways.

Choose love on this day, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia!
When folks feel loved and safe, they are less vulnerable to sexual assault. Regardless, sexual assault is NEVER your fault!

RESTORE is here for survivors. 40-60% of Black women report being subjected to coercive sexual contact by age 18, as reported by advocates. Black girls and women experience higher rates of sexual and intimate partner violence than their white counter parts. Black girls are often wrongly perceived to be more sexualized and older during adolescence.

🖤You did everything you could to survive.
🤎Healing is possible.
🩵Strong people deserve care.
🧡Harm does not define you.

You are not alone. Feeling long-term effects from an assault experience is normal. We are available 24/7 to listen confidentially, believe you, and connect you to mental health resources. Call 585.546.2777 ❤️‍🩹🫂

Supporting a loved one in this situation?
Try ALGEE!

A - ASSIST & ASSESS for risk of su***de or harm
L - LISTEN nonjudgmentally
G - GIVE reassurance & resources
E - ENCOURAGE appropriate professional help
E - ENCOURAGE self-help