🛡️ From Crisis to Purpose: How Veterans Are Reclaiming Strength, Leadership, and Community

Kirk Carlson
Aug 3
2 min read

By Kirk Carlson | Founder, Covenant of Courage

📍 Janet Goeske Foundation, Riverside, CA

🌐 www.covenantofcourage.com

📬 support@reasonableranks.org

🖊 Sign the petition: https://chng.it/5yXYvkBtMR

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What happens when the mission ends—but the war inside continues?

For many veterans, the transition from military to civilian life is not a straight path. It’s filled with invisible wounds, physical limitations, and the search for renewed purpose. At Covenant of Courage, we believe that purpose isn’t found—it’s forged. That’s why we created a new kind of workshop built around veteran empowerment, adaptive leadership, and community resilience.

On September we’re bringing this mission to the Janet Goeske Foundation in Riverside, CA, for a powerful session titled:

“From Crisis to Purpose: Reclaiming Strength, Leadership, and Community”

This isn’t just a lecture. It’s a movement.

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🔥 What to Expect

Veterans who attend will experience a safe space to connect, reflect, and rebuild. The class combines peer support, leadership development, and adaptive recovery tools rooted in lived military experience.

Topics include:

• ✅ Mental resilience and trauma recovery

• ✅ Rebuilding identity after injury or discharge

• ✅ Adaptive fitness and tactical mindset training

• ✅ Opportunities to lead and mentor through JLBC Cadet Corps

• ✅ How to turn crisis into a calling

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💬 Real Talk. Real Tools. Real Leadership.

This workshop isn’t about perfection—it’s about progress. Whether you’re dealing with physical injury, PTSD, loss of mission, or the weight of silence, you’re not alone. You’re a leader in waiting. You’re still needed. You still matter.

You don’t need a uniform to serve. You need purpose, structure, and a team that won’t leave you behind.

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💡 Why It Matters

66,000 service members were labeled non-deployable in 2018 due to illness or injury. Many were quietly discharged, stripped of roles, dignity, and opportunities for meaningful contribution. Our work through the #ReasonableRanks campaign demands change—but our boots-on-the-ground programs create it now.

We are proving that:

• Veterans can become community leaders.

• Recovery is not weakness—it’s training.

• Purpose is not a dream—it’s a mission.

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🙌 Join Us

Come be part of a growing brotherhood and sisterhood of veterans, caregivers, and patriots who refuse to be forgotten. Reclaim your strength. Redefine your service.

Event: Veteran Empowerment Workshop

Location: Janet Goeske Foundation, 5257 Sierra Street, Riverside, CA

Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

Facilitator: Kirk Carlson, USMC Veteran & Founder of Covenant of Courage

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🔗 Stay Connected

📬 support@reasonableranks.org

🌐 www.covenantofcourage.com

🖊 Sign the petition to reform discharge policy for injured service members

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You don’t run from the storm. You are the storm.

Let’s rebuild—together.