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AW2 Community Support Network

Resource Databases

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

National Resource Directory  External Link, Opens in New Window

The National Resource Directory (NRD) is a website for wounded, ill, and injured servicemembers, Veterans, their Families and those who support them. The NRD is a partnership among the Departments of Defense, Labor, and Veterans Affairs, and it contains information from more than 10,000 resources, including: federal, state, and local government agencies; Veterans service and benefit organizations; non-profit and community-based organizations; academic institutions, and professional associations that provide assistance to wounded warriors and their Families.

External Organizations

Bob Woodruff Foundation External Link, Opens in New Window

The Bob Woodruff Foundation provides resources and support to injured Service members, Veterans and their Families—building a movement to empower communities nationwide to take action to successfully reintegrate our nation's injured heroes—especially those who have sustained the hidden injuries of war—back into their communities so they may thrive physically, psychologically, socially and economically.

Boulder Crest Retreat for Wounded Warriors  External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Brain Injury Association of New Jersey External Link, Opens in New Window

The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support and information to individuals and Families affected by brain injury. Programs and services include: materials about brain injury, a helpline that directs callers to the support and services they need, support groups throughout the state, a peer-to-peer mentor support program, educational sessions (such as Brain Injury Basics), and an annual statewide conference.

Bring Everyone In The Zone, Inc. External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Challenge America External Link, Opens in New Window

Challenge America answers the question of "When it happens, where do we go?" for returning injured military personnel and their Families. They work with communities across the country to link new and existing services, and they support recreational, occupational, and housing programs to better serve servicemembers and Families in their home communities. The connection to services at the local level is made by having the resources searchable online by zip code.

Combat Wounded Veterans of South Mississippi External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Disabled Veterans Committee on Housing External Link, Opens in New Window

Disabled Veterans Committee on Housing is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) assistance organization. At the core of our mission and efforts every day is the goal of assuring that disabled Veterans are able to obtain the highest quality housing that meets their accessibility and mobility needs. Our organization is firmly committed to helping each and every disabled Veteran that we can reach. Our efforts to assist Veterans in achieving appropriately adaptive housing will allow them to be as independent and productive as possible.

National Organization on Disability (NOD) External Link, Opens in New Window

The National Organization on Disability (NOD) operates the Wounded Warrior careers program which provides career planning and support services to Wounded Warriors, Veterans and their Families, and for Service members who are referred from Advocates/RCCs. They promote employment and provide full participation of America's 54 million people with disabilities in all aspects of life. They design programs that address employment issues for adults and youth with disabilities. Help employers hire, train, and retain job-seekers with disabilities by offering students with disabilities an early introduction to the workplace. They also learn from employment demonstration programs and research—and communicate what works.

Professionals Assisting Military Friends and Family External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

United Way of San Antonio External Link, Opens in New Window

The United Way of San Antonio Texas Military Family Access Project connects military servicemembers who have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001, and their Families with federal, state, county, and city services specific to Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).

Through www.military211help.org External Link, Opens in New Window, OEF/OIF Veterans have instant access to a military call specialist and resources to address unmet needs.

Vets Adopt Pets External Link, Opens in New Window

VetsAdoptPets.org creates awareness, interest, and support for U.S. Veterans adopting shelter pets for companion or service animal needs. We disseminate information and resources, pulling together the many organizations that exist, and promote further action that enable this cause to flourish. We include AW2 organizations that supply service dogs to Veterans for physical and emotional wounds, the SFVAMC Pets for Vets voucher program and VA info on PTSD and suicide prevention.

Virginia Wounded Warrior Program External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

The Warrior Gateway External Link, Opens in New Window

The Warrior Gateway helps Veterans, servicemembers, guardsmen, reservists, Families and caregivers find the services they seek. These services include counseling, youth services, financial services, and health topics. The site is interactive with over 30,000 public, nonprofit, and for-profit programs. Service providers can share updates and other information via their online profiles. Users can add and rate the providers, plus leave feedback about their experiences on helping others, and building on the military tradition of "taking care of each other."