RESILIENCE SUPPORT · HISTORIC TRIANGLE
Resilience Support in Newport News, VA
Newport News runs on demanding, high-consequence work. The Resilient Force Project provides resilience assessments, training, and leadership consulting for the shipyard, defense, and healthcare teams that keep the Peninsula moving. We work with organizations across the country and throughout Hampton Roads — and we deliver remotely nationwide.
Military Organizations
For military organizations based in or around Newport News, VA — a large defense and healthcare workforce anchored by Newport News Shipbuilding, with shipyard crews, clinicians, and skilled trades carrying sustained pressure — mission readiness depends on more than training alone. We provide targeted resilience assessments that help leaders understand the current state of resilience within their organization, identify strengths and areas of concern, and uncover factors affecting performance and well-being. We then work alongside leaders and personnel to implement practical strategies and resilience-building initiatives that strengthen individuals, teams, and organizational culture.
Organization-wide resilience assessments to identify strengths and risk areas
Leadership consulting on burnout, morale, and high-stress operational tempo
Hands-on workshops and applied resilience sessions for units and teams
Veteran Organizations
Newport News, VA is home to veterans navigating the transition from military service to civilian life. The Resilient Force Project partners with veteran-serving organizations and communities to support veterans through that transition — helping them build resilience, navigate life’s challenges, strengthen social connections, identify purpose and meaning, and leverage the strengths gained through military service to thrive in their next chapter.
One-on-one and group resilience-building support for veterans in transition
Help identifying purpose, meaning, and next-chapter direction
Partnerships with veteran-serving organizations across the region
Medical & Mental Health Professionals
Hospitals, clinics, and mental health practices in Newport News, VA ask a lot of the people who work in them. We help healthcare and mental health professionals strengthen resilience, improve stress management, reconnect with purpose, and develop sustainable practices that support both personal well-being and professional effectiveness — countering the burnout and compassion fatigue that come with the work.
Burnout and compassion-fatigue focused resilience programming
Stress-management tools built for high-pressure clinical environments
On-site or virtual sessions for hospitals, clinics, and practices
First Responders
Police, fire, EMS, and dispatch teams serving Newport News, VA carry the weight of the community’s emergencies. The Resilient Force Project provides resilience-focused support that helps individuals and organizations build effective coping strategies, strengthen peer support and connection, enhance recovery from stress, and maintain long-term health, readiness, and performance.
Resilience training built around the realities of shift work and critical incidents
Peer support and connection-building strategies
Support for career and volunteer departments, EMS, and dispatch
Bring resilience support to Newport News, VA
Reach out to talk through what your organization or community needs — and what a practical first step looks like.
