Rescue | Rebuild | Restore
Trauma-Informed Training for Individuals, Churches and Ministries
DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A SEQUENCE TO SUCCESS?
Success doesn’t happen by chance. Healing from trauma and addiction happens by choice. When you understand modern brain science research through a Biblical lens, you discover the key to rapid transformation!
Rescue  Rebuild  Restore
Trauma-Informed Hope for the Hurting Around You
How do you truly help those in need?
Trauma, poverty mindset, addiction, and mental health are the real challenges facing your people.
Rescue: Address the immediate needs of the hurting—body and soul. From trauma and addiction to poverty mindset, we start by creating safety and hope.
Rebuild: Strengthen their spirit and soul through Spirit-led tools. Overcome shame, rebuild trust, and find purpose in God's plan.Â
Restore: Bring wholeness through community and the Holy Spirit's power. Restore lives to serve others, reflecting Christ's love.
A faith-based, holistic approach to rescue the hurting.Â
We help you serve the broken with Spirit-led wisdom—body, soul, and spirit.
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Trauma, Poverty, and Addiction Harm Your Community
But how can you help?
You want to serve like Jesus. Love like Jesus.
But the challenges facing your community seem insurmountable.Â
You set out to meet the needs of the poor and disenfranchised in your community.
You're feeding the homeless, teaching low-income children, serving families in crisis.Â
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And yet...Â
You're not seeing the results you're praying for: salvations, life transformations, restoration.
Trauma, poverty mindset, addiction, and mental health are the real challenges facing your people.
 You need a Holistic Approach to Healing.
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Who Do You Serve?
 What if your compassion could change lives without breaking yours? Too often, good intentions falter - burnout creeps in, efforts scatter. But there is a wiser way.Â
For Individuals
Trauma, poverty mindset, and addiction have affected many in your community.
Toxic stress affects individual’s physical, mental, emotional, and financial state.
Understand the unique needs of trauma survivors. Recognize abuse victim’s triggers and read through their mixed messages to understand the truth!
- Understand WHY People Do Things
- Learn How to Motivate Them Toward Healing
- Heal Your Own Trauma Hurts
- Learn How to Help Others Heal Their Trauma
For Churches
Learn how to deal with the effects of trauma, addiction, and poverty that underlie some of your congregation’s most challenging behaviors.Â
Understand trauma, addiction, and brain science through a Biblical lens.Â
Train your whole staff: Adult, Youth, Children, Outreach Ministries
Increase your impact in half the time - and see TWICE the transformation in the lives you serve.
For Nonprofit Ministries
Skill-building content and cutting-edge insights that will educate and energize your audience.
Onsite & in-person is always best but we also offer virtual trainings for the budget-conscious ministry. Learn more about our customized, tailored-to-you trainings.
- Intro to Trauma
- Secondary Trauma & Self-Care
- The Wisdom Method (TM)
- Trauma, poverty mindset, addiction
Special Trainings also available for faith-based, residential treatment programs.
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Grow with a Community of Servant Leaders
Once you've read Rescue, Rebuild, Restore: Compassion That Works, you'll want to join the conversation.
Join a community of church leaders and kind-hearted individuals on Skool. You’ll get:
- Monthly coaching calls
- Weekly Training in trauma, addiction, poverty mindset, and more
- Live Q&As
- and access the Training Vault.
Plus, build friendships and learn tips, ideas and best practices from others just like you, around the world!
Learn More About the Compassion Collective
At BeCharityWise, we offer you that winning sequence: the insights and information you need, coupled with strategies for implementation that will propel you and your team from stuck to success. Start seeing the transformation you’ve always wanted.
We have the proven resources to transform your ministry. From on-site workshops to online courses, coaching, consulting, and more, we create change from the inside out. We offer a wide array of training in the areas of trauma, addiction, poverty, and more.
Dive into the RRR framework with the book that’s equipping ministries worldwide. Learn trauma-informed, faith-based strategies to serve the hurting—body, soul, and spirit. Whether you’re a pastor, small group leader, or compassionate Christian, this book will guide you to make a lasting impact.
Let's Talk
Schedule a free one-on-one Mission Strategy Session with Suzanne, where you can discuss your current needs and how she can help you achieve them. Don’t wait! You want to do good. Let us help you do good—well.
Suzanne Burns, MS, CFTP, CTII
Expert Trainer & Speaker
Suzanne Burns of BeCharityWise empowers ministry leaders like you to achieve greater levels of transformation in the lives they touch. The secret of her effectiveness? A broad range of personal and professional experience and education.
Suzanne has over 20 years’ experience in nonprofit ministry to communities in need. Most recently, in 2012, she led a small, dedicated crew in founding a maternity home (complete with on-site education and social enterprise job-training programs) for mothers in critical situations.
Once faced with a critical situation herself, Suzanne knows what your ministry clients face—and what will and will not help them.
Over 150 mothers housed and over 1200 served through non-residential services. Internationally recognized speaker and trainer, Podcast host, Author of 9 books on ministry startup and trauma-informed care, Suzanne and her team have trained hundreds of organizations to implement practical tools to serve "the least of these" more effectively.
She has helped hundreds of ministry leaders understand the complex issues of trauma, poverty and addiction. Now they are serving their communities more effectively than ever before.
You can join their ranks. Equipped with Suzanne’s training, you and your team can learn to work more strategically—transform lives more quickly—and produce lasting results!Â
Lisa Holmes, MACS, CFTP, CTII
Expert Trainer & Speaker
Director of Client Services for Foundation House Ministries, Lisa oversees all aspects of client care, including housing, case management, court advocacy, job training, volunteer management, and sustainable stability.
Lisa is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer in practical response to addiction, trauma, mental health, and parenting while in recovery. She is passionate about training and support for front-line and live-in staff: secondary trauma, self-care, and reducing burnout.
Her Masters is in Christian Studies from Bryan College, Dayton, TN.
Rescue Rebuild Restore Podcast
Practical Wisdom for Servant Ministry
Weekly episodes equip you to serve the hurting. From trauma and addiction to secondary trauma and the poverty mindset, each episode offers Spirit-led strategies to rescue, rebuild, and restore.
Available on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and all major platforms.
"I’ve learned so much! My ministry team is so much more effective now!"
"My relationship with my youth group has dramatically shifted now that I have a better understanding of the impact of trauma in many of their lives"
"I wholeheartedly recommend Suzanne Burns and Be Charity Wise to any church or ministry looking to start or strengthen an outreach ministry to the poor"
"Suzanne’s insights into poverty mindset and trauma have transformed how we serve our community."
