AW2 Community Support Network
Financial Counseling
Each organization listed in the AW2 Community Support Network offers services that are either covered by insurance or free to AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families. AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and Families are encouraged to contact these organizations directly for more information about the services they offer.
Federal Organizations
U.S. Small Business Administration 
The Small Business Administration provides assistance for starting a business, counseling, guaranty loan programs, and opportunities for federal contracting through 8(a) BD and Hubzone certifications.
Extenal Organizations
Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors
Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors is a free, safe and healing sanctuary where our wounded warriors and their families can relax, reconnect and recover from the horrific effects of war. Our facility includes developing partnerships with local non-profit organizations who will offer various nature-focused, evidence-based, non-clinical therapy programs for the service member, their spouses and their children. Located 60 miles outside of Washington, DC, in Bluemont, VA, Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors serves outpatients from the new Walter Reed National Medical Center at Bethesda and the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.
Bring Everyone In The Zone, Inc.
Our mission is to provide education and support to service personnel and their Families who are experiencing the devastating effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To train facilitators in recognizing cases that require additional services including medical referral and providing them with needed resources. We fulfill our mission through our P-C-S programs: Preparing, Caring, and Sharing. We Prepare volunteers through our professional basic intermediate facilitator training programs and have trained over three hundred facilitators since our first training in August 2008. We Care by connecting our customers to a myriad of community resources and connections that assist Veterans and leverage these resources. Since May 2009, we have collaborated to leverage funds to assist with basic needs including rent/mortgage, utilities, care repair, food, and case management services. Financial assistance is provided on a case by case (donation by donation) basis. We share through Peer support that is provided by our volunteers on a one to one or a group basis currently have over sixty groups meeting throughout the state. Our first weekly group began in August of 2008.
Combat Wounded Veterans of South Mississippi
Combat Wounded Veterans of South Mississippi is a non-profit organization that provides support to our local wounded warriors of all services to include, financial resources, assistance with VA benefits, employment, and spiritual. We collaborate with other local organizations to facilitate the needs of our Mississippi Wounded Warriors.
Family Services of Greater Houston
Family Services of Greater Houston provides free services to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom Veterans and their Families. Services include: coaching on how to stretch finances, parenting education, and individual, couples, and Family counseling.
Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International is a global non-profit that welcomes people of all races, religions and nationalities to construct, rehabilitate or preserve homes; advocates for fair and just housing policies; and provides training and access to resources to help families improve their shelter conditions. Habitat serves military members, veterans and their families with volunteer, homeownership and employment opportunities.
Heroes Night Out- Green Zone Resource Center
Heroes Night Out-Green Zone Resource Center shows our support and appreciation for our wounded military heroes, veterans and their families. HNO Green Zone Resource Center is a facility where military and their families can come for help and information on their entitled VA benefits and other resources available to them at no cost.
Hope Coming Ministries
Hope Coming Ministries specializes in counseling services to military personnel and their Families. Their counselors recognize that military life is uniquely different from all other occupations and have experience working with individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and combat stress. Each individual or couple is provided a safe and confidential environment to talk through and sort out any issue that is causing a problem.
InCharge Education Foundation: Military Money
InCharge Education Foundation, the national non-profit organization that publishes Military Money , develops a variety of innovative personal finance tools ranging from content-rich magazines, workbooks, and websites to print-, CD-, and Web-based educational programs to meet the needs of unique groups of consumers, including America's military Families. InCharge Debt Solutions is a nonprofit organization offering confidential and professional credit counseling.
The Michael J. Novosel Foundation
The Michael J. Novosel Foundation supports wounded warriors with a wide variety of services, including financial counseling and support, advocacy, and other personalized support.
Operation Homefront-FL
Operation Homefront provides emergency and other assistance to the military Families and wounded warriors. Through a network of over 26 chapters covering 32 states, the organization offers assistance and resource and referral.
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island
Operation Stand Down Rhode Island is a non-profit organization that helps homeless and disabled Veterans. They provide social services, counseling, and other services. The organization's goal is to enable each Veteran to achieve self-worth and independence.
Our Forgotten Warriors
Our Forgotten Warriors provides short-term structured housing for active duty servicemembers and Veterans who recently sustained emotional and cognitive injuries in the line of duty. The staff helps warriors increase their level of independent functioning. The staff affirms warriors as the heroes they are and increase the warriors' determination to overcome obstacles and challenge others to follow their example.
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation
Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation provides scholarships to severely wounded members of America's Armed Forces. The program helps them readjust to civilian life and prosper in their hometowns or new communities. Local volunteer teams pledge to provide mentoring and moral support, and each Sentinel pledges to use that support to reach their personal, professional, and financial goals.
Shepherd Center/SHARE Initiative
The Shepherd Center is a private, not-for-profit catastrophic care hospital in Atlanta, GA, that specializes in medical treatment for people with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), spinal cord injuries, chronic pain, and other neuromuscular injuries or illnesses. The SHARE Initiative, a military outreach effort, provides interdisciplinary evaluation and treatment services for active duty servicemembers and Veterans who have experienced these injuries in conflict or stateside.
Southwest Veterans' Business Resource Center
The Southwest Veterans' Business Resource Center, Inc., (SWVBRC) in concert with the support of communities will serve Veterans and active duty members that have served in any military component, and with exception, spouses through outreach and education programs. SWVBRC believes welcoming home our men and women doesn't end after the crowd disperses, it MUST continue on for the life of the Veteran. Veterans have served America, now America will serve them with programs that work so they reintegrate into society.
Still Serving Veterans
Still Serving Veterans (SSV) is a clearinghouse that optimizes care for wounded warriors and their Families, focused on workforce development, vocational rehabilitation, job placement, Veterans Affairs benefits, and counseling/support services. Since 2007, SSV has helped over 1,200 Veterans reintegrate into new careers and communities. SSV has been declared a "Center of Excellence" by the national Veteran's Coalition Innovation Center and received the national Spirit of Hope Award.
Stress Less Heal More
Stress Less Heal More is a program dedicated to helping wounded warriors reduce stress in their lives so they can focus on healing. We can help you and your caregivers by negotiating your expenses, finding free and/or negotiated rates for alternative healing and finding additional types of support for those who don't have sufficient emotional support in their lives. If you have other needs let us know and we'll see how we can help. We have the ability to help five wounded warriors a month, but are working toward additional resources to help more warriors each month.
Swords to Plowshares
Swords to Plowshares provides a full continuum of care to low-income and homeless Veterans without discriminating on length of service, branch of service or military discharge status. Swords to Plowshares helps Veterans and their Families in the following areas: Frontline Drop-In Center for mental health services, supportive housing, employment support, legal services, and more.
Worklife Institute
The Worklife Institute in Houston, Texas, provides Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom servicemembers and their Families a place to work, relax, meet, hold interviews, and use confidential services free of charge. Services include career, transition, and education counseling, resume and interview skills counseling, Family and personal transition counseling, parenting classes, legal and financial consultations, work orientation and resources, and other workshops.