PATHWAYS
Hazel Gray Foundation connects individuals, families, and professionals with trauma-informed support and education. Based in Newport News, we serve Virginia’s recovery community through peer support, clinical mental health partnerships, and professional training, consultation and supervision—with a special commitment to military service members, veterans, and their families.
PEER SUPPORT SERVICES
Connection Through Shared Experience
Peer support provides encouragement, connection, and practical guidance grounded in lived experience. Hazel Gray Foundation helps individuals strengthen healthy boundaries, identify recovery goals, navigate community resources, and build supportive relationships.
Our approach recognizes how trauma, grief, and loss can influence recovery. Peer support respects each person’s choices and strengths while maintaining clear boundaries between peer services and clinical treatment.
MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY AND SUICIDE EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
Clinical Mental HealthTrauma-Informed Care and RecoveryThrough our clinical partnership with Painted Bird Psychotherapy, individuals can access psychotherapy provided by licensed clinicians and supervised clinical professionals. Services address trauma and related mental health concerns while recognizing the importance of relationships, identity, grief, and life experiences.We place special emphasis on the needs of military service members, veterans, and their families. Contact us to learn about current services, referral options, and eligibility for available grant-funded programs.
SUPERVISION, CONSULTATION & TRAINING
Strengthening Virginia’s Recovery Workforce
Hazel Gray Foundation provides trauma-informed education, professional consultation, and clinical supervision for mental health professionals and the peer support workforce. Our approach emphasizes ethical practice, self-awareness, healthy boundaries, and working within one’s professional role.
TRIPS—Trauma-Responsive & Informed Peer Support—helps peer professionals understand how trauma can affect themselves and those they support. The core training includes grief and loss, with separate specialties in Domestic Violence, Substance Use and Recovery, and Military and Veteran experiences.
RECLAIM is a 10-week survivor-focused psychoeducation program addressing safety, boundaries, coping, and identity. Separate facilitator training prepares eligible licensed clinicians to deliver these structured programs.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN SERVICES OF VIRGINIA FUNDED INITIATIVES
DVS Grant-Funded Projects
Supporting Military Service Members, Veterans and Families
Grant support from the Virginia Department of Veterans Services has helped Hazel Gray Foundation expand access to trauma recovery services and strengthen clinical service capacity. Our funded work has supported treatment, education, and professional development focused on the needs of Virginia’s military and veteran community.
Integrative Trauma Recovery Group
Developed through our DVS-funded work, the Integrative Trauma Recovery Group brought structured trauma-focused clinical services to military service members and veterans. The project supported access to individual and group psychotherapy addressing the effects of unresolved trauma.
C.A.R.E. Psychoeducation
The Couples Communication and Resiliency Psychoeducational Course provided education about communication, relationships, and coping with military-related stressors. The project supported greater understanding and healthier connections among participants.
Clinical Workforce Development
DVS grant funding has also supported clinician training, professional consultation, and service infrastructure to strengthen trauma-informed care for military service members, veterans, and their families.
Contact us to learn about current program availability and referral opportunities.
