Sometimes we come across sites that you might find
of interest. If you have a site you would like us to
link, please e-mail us, and we will be happy to list it
after review. Here are some links we thought you
might find useful:
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http://www.biavt.org This would be a great resource or reference for soldiers coming
back with brain injury as well as family members
The Brain Injury Association of P.O. Box 226
Shelburne, VT 05482
Helpline: 877-856-1772 Fax:802-985-8440 email: biavtinfo@adelphia.net
"Creating a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education and advocacy "
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http://www.namivt.org NAMI-Vermont is a statewide volunteer organization
comprised of family members, friends, and individuals affected by mental illness.
We have experienced the struggles and have joined together in membership to help
ourselves and others by providing support, information, education and advocacy.
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Helpline: 800-639-6480 | |
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United States Department Of Health and Human Services
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
“A Life in the Community For Everyone”
Finding Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Webcasts & Conferences
Resources for Military Families Coping with Trauma
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Turning Point Center of Central Vermont
The Turning Point Center of Central Vermont is a safe
place that provides a supportive atmosphere for those
and their families in or seeking recovery from addictions.
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More organiztions you might find helpful
( each name is a link, just click on it)
American Gold Star Mothers
"American Gold Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who have lost a son or daughter in the service of our country."
Any Soldier
"Any Soldier Inc. started in August 2003 as a simple family effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit. However, due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January, 2004 the Any Soldier effort was expanded to include any member of any of the Armed Services in harms way. All Soldiers involved in the effort are military volunteers stationed in areas that are in harms way. You may send your support (letters and/or packages) addressed to them and when they see the "Attn: Any Soldier" line in their address they put your letters and packages into the hands of Soldiers who don't get much or any mail first."
Coast Guard Foundation
"The Coast Guard Foundation, Inc. is a public nonprofit organization that provides annual funding to support the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Academy. The Foundation's fund-raising efforts address morale and education needs not met through traditional governmental and military funding sources. The Foundation supports morale projects, scholarships, a holiday calling card program, capital improvements, and education grants. The Foundation distributes funding among all nine Coast Guard districts, overseas units and the Academy."
Disabled American Veterans
"DAV is made up exclusively of men and women disabled in our nation's defense. It is dedicated to one, single purpose: building better lives for all of our nation's disabled veterans and their families. The mission is carried forward by providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families, representing the needs of disabled veterans and their families in state and local government, and providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs."
Fisher House - Helping Military Families
"Supporting America's military in their time of need, we provide 'a home away from home' that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time-during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury. Annually, the Fisher House program serves more than 8,500 families, and have made available more than two million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990."
Freedom Calls Foundation
"Throughout history, tours of duty in wartime have served to separate families. We are deploying state-of-the art technology to transform the experience of soldiers on extended deployments to war zones. Soldiers may now attend and participate in milestone family events such as graduations, births, birthdays and weddings etc. via video conference over the Freedom Calls Network. One Army General recently observed that our effort represents the single greatest boost in morale for the troops in the past 25 years. Our mission is to build a communications network independent of military networks employing state of the art Wi-Fi, VOIP telephony, Video Conferencing and Satcom technology to enable our troops to communicate free of charge from their base camps with their families at home by internet telephone, instant messaging and video conference."
Gold Star Wives
"Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. is here for all active duty and service connected widows and widowers. This military survivors organization has been serving war widows from all conflicts and service-connected disabilities since it was founded in 1945."
Hire Vets First
"HireVetsFirst is a comprehensive career website for hiring veterans of America's military. The site is designed for managers, human resources specialists and for veterans seeking employment. "
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
"The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is constructing a world-class state-of-the-art advanced training skills facility at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The center will serve military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The center will also serve military personnel and veterans severely injured in other operations and in the normal performance of their duties, combat and non-combat related."
Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation
"The mission of this organization is to encourage the spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical development of children through education. Since 1995, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation has distributed scholarship assistance valued over $23,000,000.00. These scholarships have primarily been awarded to children of the United States Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the United States Marshals Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Federal Air Marshal Service."
Marines Parents
"The MarineParents.com web site is for parents (Moms AND Dads), spouses, family and friends of our Marines and Recruits to gather for support during boot camp, training, active duty, floats, and deployments. All Marine and Recruit family members and friends are welcome to join. The mission includes four distinct areas: Research and providing reliable resources for information about the United States Marine Corps; providing the web site along with various online communications as a means for parents, spouses, family and friends of Marines and Recruits around the world to connect with each other; sharing personal news, stories, and letters related to our Marines and Recruits to help other parents, spouses, family and friends feel more connected to their Marine or Recruit; providing emotional and spiritual support and encouragement to each other and our Marines and Recruits."
Military HOMEFRONT
"MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the official Department of Defense web site for reliable Quality of Life information designed to help troops and their families, leaders and service providers."
National Military Family Association
"NMFA exists to educate military families concerning their rights, benefits and services available to them and to inform them regarding the issues that affect their lives and to promote and protect the interests of military families by influencing the development and implementation of legislation and policies affecting them. For more than 35 years the National Military Family Association has been the leading expert on military family issues." One innovative NMFA program to which donors may contribute is the Operation Purple summer camp. "Since the beginning of the War on Terror, NMFA has heard from families asking for resources to help their children face these new challenges, especially those related to the deployment of one or both of their parents. The Operation Purple summer camp program was created by NMFA in order to give the children the tools to face these challenges head-on and with success. Through the generous funding from Sears, Roebuck & Co. and its Sears American Dream Campaign, the Operation Purple summer camp program was launched in the summer of 2004 and expanded in 2005."
Operation Gratitude
"Hundreds of thousands of American troops are deployed indefinitely in remote parts of the world, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa, the Korean Peninsula and on ships throughout international waters. The physical conditions they must endure are difficult and they may be separated from loved ones for long periods of time. OPERATION GRATITUDE seeks to lift troops' morale, and bring a smile to their faces by sending care packages to service members overseas. OPERATION GRATITUDE care packages contain food, toiletries, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support. Through Collection Drives, Letter Writing Campaigns and Donations of requested items or funds for shipping expenses, OPERATION GRATITUDE provides civilians anywhere in America a way to express their respect and appreciation to the men and women of the U.S. military in an active, hands-on manner. "
Operation Homelink
"Operation Homelink is a non-profit (501-C3) organization with a mission of facilitating email communication between American service members deployed overseas and their families back home. Most members of our military have email access on ships and even in desert outposts. Often times however, lower income families are not able to afford a computer and must rely on expensive phone calls or slow postal service to stay in touch. Operation Homelink addresses this problem by providing a free refurbished computer to the spouse or parents of troops within the lowest level pay grades (E1-E5). With help from supporters including Northrop Grumman, Dell, United Van Lines, CDW, and Southwest Airlines, to date we have successfully linked over 1,300 military families. Large donations of used computers are needed for us to help the thousands of qualified military families wishing to communicate with their deployed loved one."
Operation Uplink
"Operation Uplink is a unique program that keeps military personnel and hospitalized veterans in touch with their families and loved ones by providing them with a free phone card. Using contributions from supporters like you, Operation Uplink purchases phone cards and distributes them to servicemen and women who are separated from those they care about."
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation
"PVA works to maximize the quality of life for its members and all people with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) as a leading advocate for health care, SCI/D research and education, veterans' benefits and rights, accessibility and the removal of architectural barriers, sports programs, and disability rights."
Special Operations Warrior Foundation
"The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides college scholarship grants for tuition, books, fees, room & board for the surviving children of special operations personnel killed in an operational mission or training accident. Currently the foundation is committed to providing scholarships for more than 600 children. In 2005, SOWF provided a total of $916,586 in scholarship grants, educational programs and financial counseling for 109 students at colleges and universities across the country."
TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors)
"The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc., is a one of a kind non-profit Veteran Service Organization offering hope, healing, comfort and care to thousands of American armed forces families facing the death of a loved one each year. The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) provides a wonderful support network for the surviving families of those who have died in service to America. TAPS has experienced, empathetic caseworkers who act as liaisons, assisting the family members in finding solutions to problems. TAPS receives absolutely no government funding, but through the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, all families faced with a death of one serving in the Armed Forces receive information about TAPS and our military survivor programs."
Unmet Needs
"The Unmet Needs Program is administered by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). Donations of skill, time and money enable the Unmet Needs Program to provide assistance of many kinds to families of American service men and women here at home. 100% of donations go directly to a military family in need."
The Wounded Warrior Project
"The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) was founded on the principle that veterans are our nation's greatest citizens. The WWP seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts inIraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military service. At the Wounded Warrior Project we provide programs and services designed to ease the burdens of the wounded and their families, aid in the recovery process, and smooth their transition back to civilian life."
More organiztions you might find helpful
( each name is a link, just click on it)
American Gold Star Mothers
"American Gold Star Mothers is an organization of mothers who have lost a son or daughter in the service of our country."
Any Soldier
"Any Soldier Inc. started in August 2003 as a simple family effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit. However, due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January, 2004 the Any Soldier effort was expanded to include any member of any of the Armed Services in harms way. All Soldiers involved in the effort are military volunteers stationed in areas that are in harms way. You may send your support (letters and/or packages) addressed to them and when they see the "Attn: Any Soldier" line in their address they put your letters and packages into the hands of Soldiers who don't get much or any mail first."
Coast Guard Foundation
"The Coast Guard Foundation, Inc. is a public nonprofit organization that provides annual funding to support the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard and Coast Guard Academy. The Foundation's fund-raising efforts address morale and education needs not met through traditional governmental and military funding sources. The Foundation supports morale projects, scholarships, a holiday calling card program, capital improvements, and education grants. The Foundation distributes funding among all nine Coast Guard districts, overseas units and the Academy."
Disabled American Veterans
"DAV is made up exclusively of men and women disabled in our nation's defense. It is dedicated to one, single purpose: building better lives for all of our nation's disabled veterans and their families. The mission is carried forward by providing free, professional assistance to veterans and their families, representing the needs of disabled veterans and their families in state and local government, and providing a structure through which disabled veterans can express their compassion for their fellow veterans through a variety of volunteer programs."
Fisher House - Helping Military Families
"Supporting America's military in their time of need, we provide 'a home away from home' that enables family members to be close to a loved one at the most stressful time-during hospitalization for an illness, disease or injury. Annually, the Fisher House program serves more than 8,500 families, and have made available more than two million days of lodging to family members since the program originated in 1990."
Freedom Calls Foundation
"Throughout history, tours of duty in wartime have served to separate families. We are deploying state-of-the art technology to transform the experience of soldiers on extended deployments to war zones. Soldiers may now attend and participate in milestone family events such as graduations, births, birthdays and weddings etc. via video conference over the Freedom Calls Network. One Army General recently observed that our effort represents the single greatest boost in morale for the troops in the past 25 years. Our mission is to build a communications network independent of military networks employing state of the art Wi-Fi, VOIP telephony, Video Conferencing and Satcom technology to enable our troops to communicate free of charge from their base camps with their families at home by internet telephone, instant messaging and video conference."
Gold Star Wives
"Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. is here for all active duty and service connected widows and widowers. This military survivors organization has been serving war widows from all conflicts and service-connected disabilities since it was founded in 1945."
Hire Vets First
"HireVetsFirst is a comprehensive career website for hiring veterans of America's military. The site is designed for managers, human resources specialists and for veterans seeking employment. "
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
"The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is constructing a world-class state-of-the-art advanced training skills facility at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. The center will serve military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The center will also serve military personnel and veterans severely injured in other operations and in the normal performance of their duties, combat and non-combat related."
Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation
"The mission of this organization is to encourage the spiritual, moral, intellectual and physical development of children through education. Since 1995, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation has distributed scholarship assistance valued over $23,000,000.00. These scholarships have primarily been awarded to children of the United States Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, the United States Marshals Service, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Federal Air Marshal Service."
Marines Parents
"The MarineParents.com web site is for parents (Moms AND Dads), spouses, family and friends of our Marines and Recruits to gather for support during boot camp, training, active duty, floats, and deployments. All Marine and Recruit family members and friends are welcome to join. The mission includes four distinct areas: Research and providing reliable resources for information about the United States Marine Corps; providing the web site along with various online communications as a means for parents, spouses, family and friends of Marines and Recruits around the world to connect with each other; sharing personal news, stories, and letters related to our Marines and Recruits to help other parents, spouses, family and friends feel more connected to their Marine or Recruit; providing emotional and spiritual support and encouragement to each other and our Marines and Recruits."
Military HOMEFRONT
"MilitaryHOMEFRONT is the official Department of Defense web site for reliable Quality of Life information designed to help troops and their families, leaders and service providers."
National Military Family Association
"NMFA exists to educate military families concerning their rights, benefits and services available to them and to inform them regarding the issues that affect their lives and to promote and protect the interests of military families by influencing the development and implementation of legislation and policies affecting them. For more than 35 years the National Military Family Association has been the leading expert on military family issues." One innovative NMFA program to which donors may contribute is the Operation Purple summer camp. "Since the beginning of the War on Terror, NMFA has heard from families asking for resources to help their children face these new challenges, especially those related to the deployment of one or both of their parents. The Operation Purple summer camp program was created by NMFA in order to give the children the tools to face these challenges head-on and with success. Through the generous funding from Sears, Roebuck & Co. and its Sears American Dream Campaign, the Operation Purple summer camp program was launched in the summer of 2004 and expanded in 2005."
Operation Gratitude
"Hundreds of thousands of American troops are deployed indefinitely in remote parts of the world, including the Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa, the Korean Peninsula and on ships throughout international waters. The physical conditions they must endure are difficult and they may be separated from loved ones for long periods of time. OPERATION GRATITUDE seeks to lift troops' morale, and bring a smile to their faces by sending care packages to service members overseas. OPERATION GRATITUDE care packages contain food, toiletries, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support. Through Collection Drives, Letter Writing Campaigns and Donations of requested items or funds for shipping expenses, OPERATION GRATITUDE provides civilians anywhere in America a way to express their respect and appreciation to the men and women of the U.S. military in an active, hands-on manner. "
Operation Homelink
"Operation Homelink is a non-profit (501-C3) organization with a mission of facilitating email communication between American service members deployed overseas and their families back home. Most members of our military have email access on ships and even in desert outposts. Often times however, lower income families are not able to afford a computer and must rely on expensive phone calls or slow postal service to stay in touch. Operation Homelink addresses this problem by providing a free refurbished computer to the spouse or parents of troops within the lowest level pay grades (E1-E5). With help from supporters including Northrop Grumman, Dell, United Van Lines, CDW, and Southwest Airlines, to date we have successfully linked over 1,300 military families. Large donations of used computers are needed for us to help the thousands of qualified military families wishing to communicate with their deployed loved one."
Operation Uplink
"Operation Uplink is a unique program that keeps military personnel and hospitalized veterans in touch with their families and loved ones by providing them with a free phone card. Using contributions from supporters like you, Operation Uplink purchases phone cards and distributes them to servicemen and women who are separated from those they care about."
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Spinal Cord Injury Education and Training Foundation
"PVA works to maximize the quality of life for its members and all people with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) as a leading advocate for health care, SCI/D research and education, veterans' benefits and rights, accessibility and the removal of architectural barriers, sports programs, and disability rights."
Special Operations Warrior Foundation
"The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides college scholarship grants for tuition, books, fees, room & board for the surviving children of special operations personnel killed in an operational mission or training accident. Currently the foundation is committed to providing scholarships for more than 600 children. In 2005, SOWF provided a total of $916,586 in scholarship grants, educational programs and financial counseling for 109 students at colleges and universities across the country."
TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors)
"The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Inc., is a one of a kind non-profit Veteran Service Organization offering hope, healing, comfort and care to thousands of American armed forces families facing the death of a loved one each year. The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) provides a wonderful support network for the surviving families of those who have died in service to America. TAPS has experienced, empathetic caseworkers who act as liaisons, assisting the family members in finding solutions to problems. TAPS receives absolutely no government funding, but through the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, all families faced with a death of one serving in the Armed Forces receive information about TAPS and our military survivor programs."
Unmet Needs
"The Unmet Needs Program is administered by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). Donations of skill, time and money enable the Unmet Needs Program to provide assistance of many kinds to families of American service men and women here at home. 100% of donations go directly to a military family in need."
The Wounded Warrior Project
"The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) was founded on the principle that veterans are our nation's greatest citizens. The WWP seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in