3E Restoration, Inc

Who We Are

3e Restoration is a Christian Community Development Agency. Our Mission is to Equip and Encourage communities to Empower neighbors living through traumagenic experiences toward resilience. 

We understand trauma as the emotional and physical harm resulting from a lack of effective control or power amid vulnerability and uncertainty where life feels destabilized or threatened. Trauma affects individuals, communities, and societies’ bodies, brains, beliefs, and behaviors.  Whether it be a horrifying event, sudden loss, social displacement, violent conflict, natural disasters, the adverse impact of societal structures, or other traumagenic situations, trauma effects individuals, families, communities, and societies. Left unprocessed, it can fuel continuing cycles of harm and prevent sustainable rebuilding. We believe individuals and communities are resourceful and can collaborate to address the impact of trauma and cultivate resiliency. 

When hospitality links with asset-based collaboration practices, a movement of community development empowered by everyday people can work to solve local problems and address injustices for the common good. We believe that alleviating impact of trauma and reality of social displacement is a community-based effort that requires strong commitment and risky actions. We believe that the most creative long-term solutions to the problem of social displacement come from grassroots faith-based movements willing to collaborate with other nonprofits, social services agencies, and education institutions.

We want to share with you 3 ways that 3e seeks to work with our community to live out our mission.

Josh's Gift of Grace

Josh’s Gift of Grace is a memorial fund and initiative created and named after our dear friend and William & Mary graduate Josh Owusu. This initiative is aimed at providing temporary/emergency stabilization shelter to those in the community who need it while they are connected with further resources. See the graphic below for a summary of its impact in our community since its beginning. 

Program Design & Implementation

When we began we had to figure everything out on our own. After years of facilitating our own direct-service programs and developing several asset-based community development collaborations, we want to offer nonprofits what we did not receive: guidance. Today, we offer strategy and sustainability consulting for trauma-responsive program design and implementation for the workplace, non-profit sector, government sector, and for asset-based community development initiatives. 

The 3e Training Experience

We offer internationally accredited certified courses in trauma studies (care and practice), asset-based community development strategies, the social sciences behind poverty and poverty alleviation, and hospitality as trauma-responsive liberation for collective trauma. Additionally, we offer a faith-based version for each course. 

We can't do this without you! 

Please consider supporting our work as every dollar matters.