Vets4Vets
(a Program of Deep Democracy)

www.vets4vets.us
jimwdriscoll@yahoo.com

Jim Driscoll, President
931 North 5th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85705
Phone: (520) 250-0509
Fax: (520) 319-5500

Vets4Vets is a non-partisan veterans' peer support organization dedicated to helping Iraq and Afghanistan veterans feel good about themselves and heal from any negative aspects of service and war. In weekend workshops, one-on-one, and local groups, Vets4Vets allows veterans to take equal and uninterrupted turns sharing their experiences and expressing their feelings in a truly confidential setting. To further promote healing Vets4Vets encourages current and former service men and women to take part in positive community actions, of their choosing, that empowers them to reach out to other veterans.

 

The Pathway Home

www.thepathwayhome.org
marybeth.bemis@thepathwayhouse.org

Mary Beth Bemis, Operations Director
100 California Drive
Yountville, CA 94599
Phone: (707) 948-3028
Fax: (707) 948-3030

The Pathway Program is a Residential Recovery program specifically created for, and dedicated to serve, our Nation's "New Warriors" – those of any age who have served our Nation's Global War on Terror in areas of the world such as Afghanistan and Iraq. These warfighters have survived the stressors of war, but find themselves experiencing problems that are "getting in the way' of functioning at their top form. The program is located in Madison Hall on the grounds of the Yountville Veterans Home.

 

California National Guard Family Assistance Fund (CNGFAF)

www.calguard.ca.gov/oc/j1/cngfaf

Col. Lawrence Cooper, Manpower & Personnel - generalinfor@ca.ngb.army.mil

Jon K. Wilson, Executive Officer, Manpower and Personnel
C/O Military Department, Office of the Adjutant General
9800 Goethe Road, PO Box 269101
Sacramento, CA 95826
Phone: (916) 854-3000

Objectives: The goal of peer support is to provide all California National Guard members with the opportunity to receive emotional and tangible peer support through times of personal or professional crises and to help anticipate and address potential difficulties.

 

Cause – Comfort for America's Uniformed Services

www.cause-usa.org

CFC#: 33011

CAUSE
6315 Bren Mar Drive, Suite 175
Alexandria, VA 22312
Phone: (703) 750-6458
Fax: (703) 750-6472

Barbara Lau, Executive Director
Barbara_Lau@cause-usa.org
Phone: (703) 750-6458
Cell: (202) 460-0693

Cause was founded in 2003 by four West Point grads/Vietnam vets and their wives. Cause began its outreach by providing personal care items and clothing to wounded soldiers arriving at Walter Reed from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Today, Cause recreation and entertainment programs reach thousands of injured service men and women facing months of medical care and rehabilitation far from home and family. Cause programs are designed to bring a bit of relaxation and fun into what are, for many, very challenging circumstances. But they also serve a much more serious purpose: that of helping wounded warriors begin the normalization process and the re-entry to home and community as they take their long journey back to health.

 

ONE Freedom, Inc.

www.onefreedom.org
elizabeth@onefreedom.org

Elizabeth Hawkins, Executive Director
35 Lakeshore Park Road
PO Box 7418
Boulder, CO 80306
Toll: (888) 334-VETS
Phone: (303) 444-1221

ONE Freedom provides returning veterans and their families with meaningful education and training on prolonged stress, trauma and personal, self-managed skill-sets for maintaining strength after service. Our education and training programs re-frame the way warriors and family members experience stress, and provide a normalizing look at why and how we are changed by our experiences and what we can do to positively move forward.

 

TIRR Foundation / Project Victory

www.tirrfoundation.org
adkinsc@tirrfoundation.org

Cynthia Adkins, Executive Director
4605 Post Oak Place, Suite 222
Houston, Texas 77027
Phone: (713) 877-0489
Fax: (714) 877-0501

Project Victory is looking to serve veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom who are experiencing the following symptoms:

• Trouble with memory, attention or concentration
• Difficulty organizing tasks
• Blurred vision or eyes tire easily
• Easily angered or irritated
• Difficulty inhibiting behavior- impulsive
• More sensitive to sounds, lights or distractions
• Impaired decision-making or problem-solving
• Feeling tired all the time
• Headaches or ringing in the ears
• Slowed thinking, moving, speaking or reading

TIRR Foundation, in collaboration with Memorial Hermann TIRR received a three-year grant for Project Victory from the Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund of the California Community Foundation. The grant will provide for cognitive, physical, psychological, vocational and educational services to aid veterans who have sustained a mild to severe brain injury. The goal of Project Victory is help wounded service members recover and successfully re-integrate back into the community.

 

Coming Home Project
also known as Deep Streams Institute

www.cominghomeproject.net/

Coming Home Project
121 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94118

Three-year support to expand programs that help heal the emotional wounds of veterans experiencing PTSD and other mental and emotional symptoms of combat trauma, and to provide critical educational and emotional support to those who care for them.

 

Sesame Workshop

www.sesameworkshop.org

Sesame Workshop
1 Lincoln Plaza
New York, NY 10023
212-595-3456

Three-year support for the Talk Listen Connect 2 program that provides a broad range of critical support and education tools and resources to at least 400,000 families and caregivers with young children struggling to cope with multiple deployments and/or parents who return home changed from military service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

Paralyzed Veterans of America

www.pva.org
info@pva.org

Paralyzed Veterans of America
801 Eighteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006-3517
1-800-424-8200

The Paralyzed Veterans of America, a congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members—veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or dysfunction.

Paralyzed Veterans will use that expertise to be the leading advocate for:

• Quality health care for our members
• Research and education addressing spinal cord injury and dysfunction
• Benefits available as a result of our members' military service
• Civil rights and opportunities which maximize the independence of our members

To enable PVA to continue to honor this commitment, we must recruit and retain members who have the experience, energy, dedication, and passion necessary to manage the organization and ensure adequate resources to sustain the programs essential for PVA to achieve its mission.

 

Soldiers' Angels

www.soldiersangels.org
soldiersangels@gmail.com

Founder: Ms. Patti Patton-Bader
1792 East Washington Blvd.
Pasadena, CA  91104
or
P.O. Box    20431
Colorado Springs, CO  81019-2431

Soldiers' Angels is a volunteer-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing aid and comfort to the men and women of the United States Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and their families. Founded by the mother of two American soldiers, we are an international organization with members in all fifty U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and several friendly countries who support America's men and women in uniform.  We were incorporated in the state of Nevada in June of 2003.

 

The Independence Fund

www.independencefund.org

lukerval@mac.com

290 Callaway Ave.
Pensacola, FL
32505

Pillar One: To provide the necessary tools and therapies that are otherwise not being provided.
Pillar Two: To fund and promote physical and leisure/athletic activities that enhance the veteran’s physical and emotional well-being.
Pillar Three: Advocacy, Our goal is a nationwide network  of volunteers who have “been there done that" who will act as guides for those following behind them. These family advisors help because they want to help and the experience that they bring can, and in many cases will be, more valuable than any
financial assistance that the fund may be in a position to provide.

 

Road 2 Recovery

www.road2recovery.us.com

R2Rinfo@aol.com

23679 Calabasas Rd. #420
Calabasas, CA 91302

The Road 2 Recovery is produced by the Fitness Challenge Foundation(501C3) in partnership with the VA Volunteer Service Office, to benefit Mental and Physical Rehabilitation Programs that feature cycling as the core activity.

 

The Soldiers Project

www.thesoldiersproject.org

National Office
info@thesoldiersproject.org
818-761-7438
Toll free: 877-576-5343

The Soldiers Project Northwest
soldiersprojectnw@yahoo.com
206-290-1035

The Soldiers Project New York City
212-242-3784

The Soldiers Project Chicago
kschecht@uchicago.edu

The Soldiers Project is a private, non-profit, independent group of volunteer licensed mental health professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and marriage and family therapists. We provide free counseling and support to military service members who have served or who expect to serve in the Iraq and/or Afghanistan conflicts and to veterans of those conflicts. We see active duty as well as members of activated Reserve or Guard units. In addition, our services are available to the families and other loved ones of service members. We provide help to service members and families struggling with issues related to the overwhelming trauma of war including the cycle from pre-deployment to deployment to homecoming and re-entry to civilian life. Our services are entirely free of charge. We do not report to any government agency.

 

 

Amputee Coalition of America

www.amputee-coalition.org

Amputee Coalition of America
900 East Hill Avenue, Suite 205
Knoxville, Tennessee 37915-2566

Toll-free: 1-888/AMP-KNOW (1-888/267-5669)
Knoxville: 1-865/524-8772
TTY: 1-865/525-4512
Fax: 1- 865/525-7917

ACA Advocacy Office
PO Box 73725
Washington, DC 20056
Phone: 202/742-1885
Fax: 866/599-8994

The Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) is a national, non-profit amputee consumer educational organization representing people who have experienced amputation or are born with limb differences. The ACA includes individual amputees, amputee education and support groups for amputees, professionals, family members and friends of amputees, amputation or limb loss related agencies, and organizations.

 

Purple Dog Tags

www.PurpleDogTag.com

At Purple Dog Tag, our mission is simple. We are looking to help lend financial and emotional support to these men and women as they continue their personal battle to return to normal life. By purchasing and wearing your own purple dog tag, you'll be doing exactly that. Purple Dog Tag is not affiliated with any political organization. We have no political agenda. Our sole and only goal is to offer support and hope to our returning wounded.

 

The American Widow Project

www.americanwidowproject.org
www.myspace.com/theawp
877-AWP-Widow

The American Widow Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to the new generation of those who have lost the heroes of yesterday, today and tomorrow, with an emphasis on healing through sharing stories, tears and laughter………Widow to Widow.

 

Remembering the Brave

www.rememberingthebrave.org
inquiries@rememberingthebrave.org

Remembering the Brave
PO Box 470008
Aurora, CO 80047-0008
303-325-1575

The Remembering the Brave Foundation is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to preserving the memories of our brave service members who have made the ultimate sacrifice, and honoring their families in their time of enormous loss.