GENERAL RESOURCES
FOR VETERANS & FAMILIES
THE MILITARY AND VETERANS CRISIS LINE
Help is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for veterans in crisis and their families and friends.
If you or someone you know is experiencing the symptoms of emotional distress, including thoughts of suicide, immediate help is available by dialing 988 (Press 1). Confidential help is also available in a chat online, or by sending a text message to 838255.
This foundation currently has seven programs. R.I.S.E. provides adaptive homes and vehicles, wheel/track chairs; Lt. Dan Band lifts morale for service members at home and abroad; Relief and Resiliency Outreach is for those recovering from trauma and in urgent need; Invincible Spirit Festivals are family celebrations held at military medical hospitals; the Ambassadors Council raises awareness; Serving Heroes feeds service members in transit at major airports.
Rebuilding Together makes essential repairs to help neighbors stay in their homes. Their mission is to repair homes, revitalize communities and rebuild lives. Safe homes and communities are for everyone.
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) seeks to improve the lives of millions of wounded service members and their families through direct programs in mental health, career counseling, and long-term rehabilitative care. In helping America’s injured veterans become empowered, employed, and engaged in their communities, WWP strives to ensure that when those who serve come home, they’re afforded every opportunity to be as successful as a civilian as they were in the military.
Vets4Warriors is committed to ensuring that every member of the military community in need of support always has direct and immediate access to a peer who understands what they are going through.
With every step, wear blue creates a living memorial to the service and sacrifice of the American military. And on race day, the wear blue Mile allows all athletes to pay tribute to the service members who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. wear blue: run to remember, run for the fallen, for the fighting, and for the families.
Project Hero is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping veterans and first responders affected by PTSD and TBI while helping to achieve rehabilitation, recovery and resilience in their daily lives.
VVA’s goals are to promote and support the full range of issues important to Vietnam veterans, to create a new identity for this generation of veterans, and to change public perception of Vietnam veterans.
Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including professional readjustment counseling to eligible Veterans, active duty service members, including National Guard and Reserve components, and their families.
Launched in 2011, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Hiring our Heroes Initiative provides veterans, transitioning military members and military spouses with the tools and resources needed to find work in the job market and connects them with civilian companies to create employment opportunities.
Developed by veterans, Hirepurpose helps former servicemen and women transition from the military to civilian careers in the private and public sectors with an eye for matching the right talent with the right opportunity.
Links to Freedom provides wounded warriors, disabled veterans, their families and caregivers, Gold Star spouses and their children with rehabilitative golf programs at military and civilian golf facilities nationwide.
The Air Force Aid Society has been helping Airmen since 1942. They provide emergency financial assistance with no-interest loans and/or grants, education support through grants, loans and scholarships, and community programs to help families while their loved ones are deployed.
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society helps active duty and retired Sailors, Marines, and their families get through difficult financial times by providing several programs and services through understanding the unique challenges of military life.
United Service Organization (USO)
Started in 1941, the United Service Organization (USO) has been keeping service members connected with family, home and country by entertaining them, providing a place of comfort through its more than 250 centers extending to countries on every continent and by always conveying the support of a grateful nation.
America’s Warrior Partnership is committed to empowering communities to empower veterans. We fill the gaps that exist between current veteran service organizations by helping nonprofits connect with the veterans, military members and families in need: bolstering their efficacy, improving their results and empowering their initiatives.
Special Operations Transition Foundation
SOTF (formerly YGN) provides mentoring and career placement programs to take these veterans “from the battlefield to the boardroom.”
The Army’s non-profit organization, AER, provides soldiers with zero-interest loans, grants, educational scholarships and ensures that no soldier is left behind during times of financial hardships.
PsychArmor provides free online education and support on how to work with, live with or care for military veterans through courses and online resources.
Foundation for Women Warriors’ vision is to serve women veterans and their children so that their next mission is clear and continues to impact the world.
TKEF’s goal is to provide education, opportunity, and healing in the outdoors through recreational therapy clinics and expeditions – improving the quality of life of individuals through mobility.
Veterans shouldn’t have to face the challenges of PTSD in silence, or alone. They don’t have to. Guitars for Vets (G4V) provides a unique, music-based instruction program for Veterans. Through the teamwork and camaraderie of G4V, Veterans not only learn to play the guitar, they also join a community, and find solace in the songs they love as well as the songs they have yet to write.
RESOURCES FOR GOLD STAR FAMILIES
Among their many programs, the Yellow Ribbon Fund provides families of the wounded with hotel rooms and apartments, cab rides to and from the hospital, therapeutic massages to ease stress and a wide range of social events.
Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation provide college scholarships and educational counseling to military children who have lost a parent in the line of duty.
Created by bereaved military families, TAPS offers grief counseling, benefits counseling and support groups, as well as special programs for grieving children. Helpline team members are available 24/7 to guide callers to appropriate services or simply to listen and talk.
Whether going back to school, reentering the workforce, or parenting a grieving teenager, widows face many challenges as they rebuild their lives. AWP offers peer counseling, a community of fellow survivors and educational programs to help widows plan the next chapters in their lives.