Project Return to Work, Inc.

www.return2work.org
elizabeth.hubbard@return2work.org

Elizabeth Hubbard, Volunteer
3850 Paseo del Prado No. 2
Boulder, CO 80301
Phone: (303) 415-9187
Fax: (720) 564-0534

R2W advocates work, education and benefits for newly enabled Americans including injured soldiers returning home from combat in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. R2W's services include: evaluation, training, placement, supported employment, service learning for active duty members, financial counseling, and home buyer education.

 

Swords to Plowshares

www.swords-to-plowshares.org

Michael Blecker, Executive Director - mblecker@stp-sf.org
Amy Fairweather, Director, Iraq Veteran Project - afairweather@stp-sf.org

1060 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 252-4787 ext. 356
Fax: (415) 252-6267

Swords to Plowshares was started in 1974 by six veterans volunteering at the Veterans Administration in San Francisco and a few others who were concerned that the needs of returning Vietnam veterans were not being addressed. They formed an organization whose guiding principle was that veterans must never again be treated as second-class citizens, such as they were after the Vietnam War, and that war in general causes wounds that last beyond the battlefield. Swords to Plowshares is a community-based organization whose programs have evolved to meet the changing needs of veterans. With the country now involved in armed conflict, Swords to Plowshares’ programs will remain among the most needed in our society.

The Iraq Veteran Project ensures that recent veterans receive the support, services and protection they need to successfully transition home. Our services are available to all GWOT veterans, former Active Duty, Guard and Reserve, with any type of discharge.

 

Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation

www.sentinelsoffreedom.org
mconklin@sentinelsoffreedom.org

Mike Conklin, National Director
5075 South Syracuse
Denver, CO 80237
Phone: (303) 862-1596
Fax: (303) 796-3324

Our mission is to provide life-changing opportunities for men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces who have suffered severe injuries and need the support of grateful communities to realize their dreams. Sentinels of Freedom provide four year “life scholarships” to help vets become self-sufficient. Our vets are finding that once they’re released from the hospital, they face the everyday hardships of finding a home, continuing their education, or going to work to support their families. Every American faces the same difficulties, but in the vet’s case, the situation is made more difficult because of their sacrifice. The four-year program is meant for veterans with severe service-related injuries who have the aptitude, attitude, and drive to become independent and successful members of society.

 

Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic

www.wintersportsclinic.va.gov

Sandy Trombetta, VA National Director
Snowmass Village, Colorado
Phone: (970) 244-1314

The Winter Sports Clinic provides veterans with disabilities an opportunity for self-development and challenge through sports and leisure activities. In 2007, 124 newly injured military personnel participated in the Clinic – many for the first time, with more expected in 2008. At the Clinic, all participants are able to develop winter sports skills and take part in a variety of adaptive workshops, which demonstrate that having a physical or visual disability need not be an obstacle to an active, rewarding life.

 

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.

 

The Retired Enlisted Association

www.trea.org

Member Services: katherines@trea.org

1111 S Abilene Ct.
Aurora, CO 80012
Phone: 303-752-0660 or 800-338-9337
Fax: 303-752-0835 or 888-882-0835

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for uniformed services enlisted personnel, their families and survivors - including active components, Reserves, and National Guard, and all retirees; to stop the erosion of earned benefits through our legislative efforts, to maintain our esprit de corps, dedication and patriotism, and to continue our devotion and allegiance to God and Country.

 

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.

 

Disabled Sports USA

www.dsusa.org

information@dsusa.org

A national nonprofit, 501(c)(3), organization established in 1967 by disabled Vietnam veterans to serve the war injured. DS/USA now offers nationwide sports rehabilitation programs to anyone with a permanent disability. Activities include winter skiing, water sports, summer and winter competitions, fitness and special sports events. Participants include those with visual impairments, amputations, spinal cord injury, dwarfism, multiple sclerosis, head injury, cerebral palsy, and other neuromuscular and orthopedic conditions.

 

Boots to Books

www.bootstobooks.org/
bsolheim@citruscollege.edu

Boots to Books
626-852-8096

The goal of Boots to Books is to assist the deployed, post-deployed, and veteran (DPV) student in making a positive transition from military to civilian life or from deployment to post-deployment life including college survival skills. This curriculum was developed to help the DPV student succeed in academics, work, family, and other social settings. The Boots to Books course will teach students interpersonal skills and techniques for managing Military Readjustment Transition Issues. The course will also help DPV students effectively manage military stress, combat reaction stress, operational stress, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Boots to Books is a for credit college course offered as Counseling 160 through Citrus College in Glendora, CA.