About Human Restoration

An organization built on understanding.

Human Restoration LLC provides education, training, consulting, and program development for public agencies, schools, behavioral-health and recovery programs, nonprofits, and the individuals and families they serve.

Mission

To help people and organizations understand the patterns underneath behavior, so that change can last.

What we believe

Born Whole. Built to Heal.

People are more than their history, their diagnosis, or their worst decision.

Identity is not your symptoms.

A pattern describes what is happening. It does not define who a person is.

Understanding changes everything.

When people understand a pattern, they are better prepared to change it.

How we work

Professional, practical, and clear about our role.

Educational and developmental

Our work teaches and builds capacity. We do not provide therapy, diagnosis, or medical care.

Complementary by design

Human Restoration is built to work alongside treatment, supervision, case management, education, and community services.

Practical to implement

Materials are written at an accessible reading level and designed for delivery by trained staff in real settings.

Protective of people and ideas

We keep client information confidential, and we protect the intellectual property that makes the work consistent.

Yusuf S. Saleem, MHS, standing on a forest trail
Yusuf S. Saleem, MHSFounder and Chief Executive Officer

Leadership

Four decades on the front line of human change.

Yusuf S. Saleem, MHS, founded Human Restoration after more than forty years of work with people in some of the hardest moments of their lives.

His career spans behavioral health, corrections, crisis services, child and family services, chaplaincy, and government oversight. He has served as a therapist, educator, program auditor, and consultant in community, hospital, correctional, and state settings.

That range let him see the same human patterns from many sides: the person, the family, the program, and the system. Human Restoration turns what he learned into a framework that people and organizations can use.

Experience

  • Regional Program Auditor, Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) and Children and Youth programs
  • Pennsylvania Governor's Management Intern
  • CASSP Children's Specialist, Southeast Region
  • Inpatient and outpatient dual diagnosis therapist
  • Outpatient MAT counselor and therapist
  • Correctional treatment in a state prison setting
  • Inpatient forensics and juvenile corrections
  • Crisis counseling and hospital diversion
  • Family and child therapy
  • Former VA Chaplain (substitute services, VA Medical Center) and former Imam

Publications

Books by Yusuf S. Saleem, MHS

Cover of The Aborted Male by Y. S. Saleem
Available

The Aborted Male

Reversing the Tactics and Schemes of the Modern Day Pharaohs. A workbook and life guide. 2023.

Cover of Make Your Trauma Pay You Back: It Owes You, by Yusuf S. Saleem, MHS
Coming soon

Make Your Trauma Pay You Back

It Owes You. Stop paying for what happened to you. Collect what it taught you.

Cover of Human Restoration: How Your Pain and Suffering Became a Business Model
Forthcoming

Human Restoration

How Your Pain and Suffering Became a Business Model. The book behind the framework.

Cover of The Drug We Don't Call A Drug: Alcohol, Ethanol, and What Your Body Actually Receives
Forthcoming

The Drug We Don't Call A Drug

Alcohol, Ethanol, and What Your Body Actually Receives. A science-based Human Restoration Clarity Guide on alcohol and health.

Educational scope. Human Restoration is educational and developmental. It does not diagnose, treat, or provide clinical care. It is designed to complement, not replace, behavioral-health treatment, medical care, counseling, case management, and other professional services.

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