AW2 Community Support Network
Mental Wellness and 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
Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) 
A Department of Defense initiative, DCoE leads a collaborative network to promote the resilience, recovery, and reintegration of warriors and their Families who face psychological health and traumatic brain injury issues. DCoE works with other parts of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs and with a national network of military and civilian agencies, community leaders, advocacy groups, clinical experts, and academic institutions to establish best practices and standards for treatment.
Real Warriors Campaign
The Real Warriors Campaign, a Department of Defense initiative, combats the stigma associated with seeking psychological health care and encourages servicemembers and their Families to use these resources. The campaign features stories of real servicemembers who have sought treatment and are continuing to maintain successful military or civilian careers. It educates servicemembers and Families about the range of resources and support available for psychological health concerns and TBIs.
VA Readjustment Counseling Services
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides outreach and readjustment counseling services through 232 community-based Vet Centers located in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Readjustment counseling is designed to help combat Veterans readjust to civilian life.
External Organizations
America's Adopt A Soldier
America's Adopt A Soldier works to make a difference in the lives of Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families. Local chapters hosting packing events, raise funds for postage and event support, and pack, and ship packages. They sponsor local and national events that focus on Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families, such as workshops for post-traumatic stress disorder and the Wounded Warrior Path To Strength, a four-day course with corporate sponsors providing healing, knowledge, and social capital.
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.
Camp Cope
Camp Cope helps kids and teens learn coping skills in fun, interactive ways in groups of their peers in similar circumstances. Service members and spouses are provided an opportunity to attend Relationship Enrichment or Parenting Support Seminars while kids are at camp. Camp Cope is available to kids and teens of wounded, fallen or deployed service members at all phases of deployment (prior to, during and after). They help military kids and Families cope with the sacrifices they are asked to make every day. They believe kids serve too!
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 Service Association
Family Service Association provides support services to wounded warriors and Family members whose loved ones have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Services available include: home-based, Family strengthening and spiritual support services, individual and Family counseling, parenting education, and child care subsidy assistance. These services are available to all Family members impacted by injury or deployment.
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.
Give an Hour
Give an Hour's mission is a national network of volunteers that specifically works closely with American servicemembers and Families affected by the current military conflicts. They provide counseling to individuals, couples and Families, and children and adolescents. They offer treatment for anxiety, depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, sexual health and intimacy concerns, and loss and grieving.
The G.I. Go Fund
The G.I. Go Fund focuses on assisting Veterans as they transition from military to civilian life. The G.I. Go Fund offers assistance on securing employment, enrolling in Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, education advancement, and other programs. The G.I. Go Fund also offers a Transition Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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.
Heroes to Hometowns
Heroes to Hometowns is designed to welcome home servicemembers who are severely injured. In facilitating a positive transition home, Heroes to Hometowns inspires community pride and establishes a support network for servicemembers and their Families so they can live productive lives. Heroes to Hometowns also offers national assistance.
Higher Ground
Higher Ground is a sports rehabilitation program based in Sun Valley, Idaho, and La Jolla, California, serving individuals with traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, polytrauma, and other injuries. The program offers ten week-long sports camps: snow sports, water sports, ocean sports, and fly fishing. Camps are free for wounded warriors and spouses, and child care is provided. Group sizes are small to encourage friendships and individual instruction.
The Home Base Program
The Home Base Program is a partnership between the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital. It is dedicated to improving the lives of Veterans deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom who live with deployment-related stress and/or traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). It provides clinical care, support for Families, and educational materials. The Home Base Program also works with researchers seeking medical breakthroughs for TBIs and stress-related disorders.
Homecoming for Veterans (HC4V)
Homecoming For Veterans (HC4V) provides neurofeedback on brain training for Veterans and active duty Service people dealing with PTSD and TBI. HC4V trains health care providers and provides clinical systems for programs in shelters and military bases. They are dedicated to raising awareness of the self-recovery potential of the brain through neurofeedback. The HC4V has a network of clinicians who are willing to treat clients 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.
HOPE for HEROES, Samaritan Counseling Center of Austin, Texas
HOPE for HEROES provides confidential counseling at no charge for military personnel and their Family members who have counseling needs as a result of service in Iraq or Afghanistan. Individuals that qualify for services include military who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan through any branch of service, including Veterans, and their Family members (spouses, children, parents, and siblings).
Jericho Project
Jericho Project is constructing two new Veterans residences in the Bronx, which will provide 132 studio apartments to homeless and low-income Veterans by the end of 2011. Jericho also provides supportive apartments and its full range of support services to 40 homeless and low-income Veterans. Every Veteran who calls Jericho home will have access to employment and education assistance, substance abuse counseling, and Family counseling.
Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska's At Ease Program
Lutheran Family Services' At Ease program provides trauma treatment and therapeutic support for active military, Veterans and loved ones living in Nebraska. At Ease counselors are specifically trained in treatment practices known to be effective in addressing PTSD and other trauma-related disorders. At Ease provides individual Family and group counseling options, and no individual is turned away due to inability to pay.
Meet Yourself Yoga Therapy
Meet Yourself Yoga Therapy (MTYT) provides one-on-one and couples yoga therapy, as well group classes. MTYT currently offers classes and private sessions at the VA Long Beach Healthcare System. Benefits from this body-oriented therapy that includes self-inquiry include: increased sense of calm and joy, engagement in life, ability to sleep better and manage moods more easily. In addition, intrusive thoughts and avoidance of situations are lessened. Interpersonal relationships are improved as self-awareness increases. No knowledge of yoga needed, nor flexibility in the body.
Monmouth University School of Social Work: The Coming Home Project
The Monmouth University School of Social Work is cognizant of their duty to serve vulnerable populations such as persons who have experienced combat either directly or indirectly. The Coming Home Project at Monmouth has two goals: 1) to educate and prepare new Masters of Social Work graduates to work specifically with Veterans and their Families, and 2) to educate and prepare existing social service providers and agencies to be better equipped to work with returning Veterans and their Families.
NAMI Greater Milwaukee
NAMI Greater Milwaukee is part of NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the largest grassroots organization dedicated to support, education and advocacy for individuals living with mental illness and their Families. NAMI Greater Milwaukee offers support groups and classes for both consumers and their Families, and also trains police and other first responders in how to effectively intervene when someone is having a mental health crisis.
Northern Pines Mental Health Center
The Northern Pines Veterans Program connects veterans, service members and their families with the services, education, support and assistance needed to stabilize their home life before, during and after deployment (regardless of era served).
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 Open Arms
Operation Open Arms works within the Southwest Florida community to provide ordinary and extraordinary needs for active duty military personnel returning from combat or a foreign duty station and to provide free and high priority post-traumatic stress disorder therapy and counseling to wounded warriors.
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.
Professionals Assisting Military Friends and Family
Professionals Assisting Military Families and Friends (P.A.M.F.F.) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing individualized and compassionate services to every military Family with a loved one who is on active duty or a Veteran. P.A.M.F.F. is a specialized counseling, outreach, and referral service committed to assisting military Families cope with concerns, worries, and everyday life. We serve Families in both Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida.
Returning Veterans Project (RVP)
Returning Veterans Project (RVP) provides free and confidential mental health and other health services to OEF/OIF Veterans and active duty military members and their Families in Oregon and southwest Washington. Clients can access provider information by visiting the RVP web site and contacting the provider directly for complete confidentiality. Services are free and there is no limit to the number of visits a client may have. All RVP providers are licensed by their state and have malpractice liability insurance.
Samaritan Counseling Center of West Texas
Samaritan of West Texas is a faith-based Counseling Center offering a full package of FREE counseling to Iraq and Afghanistan war Soldiers and Veterans and their Families. Our state licensed, experienced therapists are trained in individual, marital, and family counseling, post traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, grief, crisis intervention, play and art therapy, addictions, eating and cutting disorders, pain management, and diagnosis of attention problems.
Scott & White Military Homefront Services
Scott & White Military Homefront Services provides free, unlimited, confidential counseling for individuals, couples and Families. They also provide resilience rejuvenation workshops for service members and Families. All counselors are licensed and trained in military culture. They have a goal of empowering and supporting the Family.
Serenity Life Coaches LLC
Serenity Life Coaches is a veteran owned business which serves veterans and their families for issues of PTSD, depression, anxiety, parenting, relationships, family discord, and much more. Free 20 minutes phones consultation upon request.
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) works with local communities to serve Veterans and active duty servicemembers from all military components, 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 for life. SWVBRC also believes Veterans have served America, now America will serve them with programs that work so they reintegrate into society.
Stay Strong Nation
Stay Strong Nation works to create awareness of Soldiers and Veterans suffering from post traumatic stress (PTS) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They are involved in the building of a PTS facility in Maui, Hawaii, that will provide therapy for Veterans with PTS in a relaxed environment and offer recreational activities, such as hiking, biking, horseback riding, whale watching, jet skiing, hang gliding, and sport fishing.
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.
There and Back Again
There and Back Again (TABA) is a non-profit reintegration program offered at no cost to Veterans, many of whom return from combat with complex emotional issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The structured program teaches Veterans how to use breath awareness, meditation, and yoga to manage PTSD, to improve their relationships with loved ones, to fully participate in their lives, and to give back to their fellow Veterans through TABA's Train the Trainer program.
Veterans' Families United Foundation
Veterans Families United (VFU) is dedicated to empowering Veterans and their Families. They provide detailed information on their website about readjustment, invisible wounds, and links to resources that can help. Subjects include readjustment problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries, reasons Veterans avoid assistance, and healing resources. Financial assistance is not available, though email and phone inquiries will receive response within 24 hours.
Vets4Vets
Vets4Vets is dedicated to helping Iraq/Afghanistan-era Veterans heal from the psychological injuries of war through the use of pure peer support. Their primary goal is to help these Veterans understand the value of peer support and regularly use peer support to express their emotions, manage their challenges, and ease their reintegration into society. Their vision is to provide a local Vets4Vets support group in the local area when a Veteran needs to talk to someone who really understands.
Virginia Wounded Warrior Program
The Virginia Wounded Warrior Program serves Veterans of any era who are Virginia residents, members of the Virginia National Guard and Armed Forces Reserves not in active federal service, and the Family members of those Veterans and service members. It provides a network of community-based services designed to help Veterans and their Families overcome the challenge of stress-related issues and traumatic brain injuries.
Warriors at Ease
Warriors at Ease's mission is to facilitate the deployment of highly skilled yoga and meditation instructors, as well as other professional complementary and alternative medicine practitioners into the Military Healthcare System and military community through outstanding training and consultative services. They exists to assist in healing the bodies, minds and spirits of America's Warriors and focuses on supporting all to live healthy, purposeful lives.
Wisdom of Your Spirit
This website focuses on a form of healing called Calyco Healing. Calyco Healing is a graceful method of healing that clears negative emotions on all levels in an easy, non-invasive way. It is simple, proven and effective! Calyco gives the practitioner a reliable way to clear the lower-vibration energies and replace them with high-vibration energies, yet also encourages clients to trust their own intuition. It also allows you too, boost your confidence, be more connected in your relationships, enhance your health, improve your finances, overcome fear / phobias, free yourself from self sabotage, let go of negative mind chatter and helps with getting in touch with your divine intuition.
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.