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.
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

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

Make Your Trauma Pay You Back
It Owes You. Stop paying for what happened to you. Collect what it taught you.

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

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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