Dr. Carter Check is a U.S. Army Veteran, board-certified clinical chaplain with a specialty in Suicide Prevention, healthcare ethicist, and Associate Professor of Moral Health at Oral Roberts University. He is the founder of the You Are Still Here movement, a national message centered on identity recovery and resilient purpose after adversity. Combat trained during his military service, he later dedicated his vocation to serving those who carry invisible wounds, including moral injury, grief, leadership strain, and identity disruption.

He currently serves within the Veterans Health Administration as an integrated member of a Suicide Prevention Team, working alongside interdisciplinary providers to restore meaning, strengthen protective factors, and reduce suicide risk through relational and ethical care. With a doctorate in Healthcare Ethics and years of clinical and academic experience, Dr. Check developed the Moral Health framework, an applied architecture for understanding how conscience, identity, responsibility, and resilience function under sustained pressure. He also created the CareFrontation model, a leadership approach that integrates compassionate presence with courageous truth-telling to restore ethical clarity in individuals and institutions. He is the bestselling author of Healing in the Wild, a work that integrates outdoor immersion, moral reflection, and community-based restoration.

Dr. Check speaks nationally on moral health, moral injury, suicide prevention, ethical leadership, and spiritual resilience, teaching high-responsibility professionals how to rebuild meaning before burnout becomes collapse. Audiences leave with a grounded understanding of how to restore identity, interpret moral adversity, and rebuild resilient purpose before sustained pressure erodes capacity. His work integrates theology and psychology, scholarship and lived experience, offering more than inspiration. He offers structure, clarity, and practical tools leaders can apply immediately. His steady conviction remains simple: if you are still here, there is still purpose to steward.