Resilience and Prevention Directorate
Mission:
Assist the Services and the Department of Defense (DoD) to optimize resilience; psychological health; and readiness for service members, leaders, units, families, support personnel and communities.
Director (interim):
Overview:
The Resilience and Prevention (R&P) Directorate is responsible for supporting DoD and other federal and civilian agencies’ resilience and prevention efforts, programs and initiatives. To accomplish its mission, the R&P Directorate connects with a broad range of subject matter experts and support agencies to assess and monitor needs; identify and disseminate best practices, innovative programs, and practical tools; and develop and integrate robust communities of practice.
Goals:
- Facilitate a cultural shift toward a model of psychological health in the Services and DoD focused on resilience and primary prevention.
- Encourage and support ongoing multi-agency and multi-disciplinary collaboration among DoD leaders, federal and state agencies, medical agencies, and other support agencies that have expertise in resilience and prevention research and practices.
- Identify and disseminate best practices; innovative programs; and practical tools that empower DoD leaders, policy-makers, medical agencies and other support agencies to facilitate resilience and prevention.
- Provide needs assessments and consultation services for effectively selecting/developing, implementing, and evaluating resilience and prevention programs in various system contexts.
Functional Areas:
- Facilitate a cultural shift from treatment of illness to a holistic approach for psychological health, resilience and prevention.
- Promote resilience-building programs and practices to enhance performance and combat effectiveness; operational readiness across organizational and community systems; family and community resilience; and reintegration of service members and families, including post-deployment growth.
- Address stigma and barriers to care.
- Support prevention programs and activities targeting, but not limited to, suicide prevention, alcohol and substance abuse prevention, family maltreatment prevention, sexual assault prevention, workplace violence, and prevention of adverse stress-related mental health conditions such as post traumatic stress disorder and depression.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of programs and services designed to support service members and their families during the process of recovery from physical and/or mental injuries.