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Organizations that offer specialized programs and resources to service members, their families and their health care providers on a state or local level. These organizations may be affiliates of national organizations as well, but have programming specific to a smaller geographic area.
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California Department of Veterans AffairsThe California Department of Veterans Affairs works to serve California's veterans and their families to ensure all former service members achieve the highest quality of life and live with dignity and honor. The department's Operation Welcome Home Campaign is a statewide effort to connect with each and every returning veteran to determine their needs and connect them with services that can help them transition successfully from the battle front to the home front. |
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Faith*Hope*Love*Charity, Inc.Faith*Hope*Love*Charity, Inc. is a non-profit organization located in southern Florida that provides support for veterans, active duty service members and their families through supportive services, financial assistance, housing, life skills education, community outreach and mental health services for combat- and non-combat-related issues. Current programs include OIF/OEF community reintegration services and Stand Down, a multi-tiered program that assists and supports male veterans who are struggling with addiction and have become homeless as a result of that struggle. |
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Family Resiliency CenterThe Family Resiliency Center provides support to active duty service members, veterans and their families before, during and after deployment. The center provides trainings and resources to help service members and veterans learn the skills for self, peer and family directed care in prevention and intervention of operational stress induced behavior and post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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NAMI AlabamaNAMI Alabama, the state affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for persons with a mental illness in Alabama. Through its programs, NAMI Alabama provides information, support and a sense of belonging to persons and veterans with serious mental illness and their families. |
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NAMI New HampshireNAMI New Hampshire, the state affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is dedicated to improving the quality of life of persons of all ages affected by mental illness and/or suicide, through education programs, individual and group supports, professional trainings and legislative advocacy. NAMI New Hampshire's Connect Suicide Prevention Project is designated as a National Best Practice Program that increases the competence and confidence of professionals and communities to respond to suicide incidents across the lifespan. |
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NAMI TennesseeNAMI Tennessee, the state affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, offers service members, veterans and their families statewide programs designed to unite civilian and military psychological health agencies. The NAMI Tennessee Veterans' Council advocates for early and effective psychological healthcare to support recovery and community reintegration of veterans, service members and their families. Their programs provide an outlet to share firsthand experience with the day-to-day challenges of coping with and recovering from psychological concerns. The Battle Buddies Program connects veterans with service members, veterans and military families to help them deal with the common challenges of military service. Other programs include classes and support groups for family members, as well real people sharing personal testimonies of success. |
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Ourmilitary.milAmerica Supports You is a Department of Defense Community Relations initiative that communicates to U.S. military members what thousands of individual citizens, community groups, corporations, businesses and others are doing to support them and their families, at home and abroad. On the Department’s Community Relations Web site under Support for Our Troops, nonprofit groups are categorically listed to easily depict the types of actions that citizens are taking to show their support. Many stories of citizen support also may be found at www.ourmilitary.mil under Community Relations News and Headlines. |
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Quantum Leap FarmQuantum Leap Farm exists to enrich and enhance the lives of active and injured soldiers and their families, by engaging them in a variety of evidence based and equine assisted activities designed to promote and improve physical, mental and social well-being. |
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Rotary Club of ArlingtonThe main objective of Rotary is service - in the community and throughout the world. Rotarians build goodwill and peace and provide humanitarian services. |
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The Virginia Wounded Warrior ProgramThe Virginia Department of Veterans’ Wounded Warrior Program provides timely supplemental behavioral health, rehabilitation services and support to veterans, National Guard members, reservists and family members who are coping with the effects of combat stress, operational stress and other combat-related injuries resulting from their service and sacrifice. The program focuses on TBI and PTSD, and is administered through three regional directors working closely with existing local Community Services Boards. Services that may be available through networks of public and private providers include assessment, case management, outpatient treatment, rehabilitative services, family support and linkage to benefits services, housing, employment and educational programs. |
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Virtual Counseling Center at Arizona State UniversityThe Virtual Counseling Center at Arizona State University designs and evaluates standardized tests and evidence-based intervention programs to help students, graduates and veterans develop career plans and life skills. The center also provides links to related materials created by other researchers. To ensure maximum benefit, all resources have a solid scientific basis and are capable of being administered over the Internet. |
