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AW2 Community Support Network

Retirement and Transition

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. Army Career and Alumni Program External Link, Opens in New Window

The U.S. Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP) is an integral part of the Army personnel lifecycle. ACAP provides comprehensive transition services to separating and retiring Soldiers, Department of the Army civilians, and their Family members. ACAP counselors deliver congressionally mandated pre-separation counseling, provide job search training, assist in the use of automated employment tools, conduct one-on-one employment counseling, and facilitate employment workshops and seminars.

External Organizations

Air Warrior Courage Foundation External Link, Opens in New Window

The Air Warrior Courage Foundation sponsors three primary programs: Wounded Warrior Support, IRS-529 scholarship savings accounts for children of aviators killed in performance of aircrew duties, and a Therapeutic Riding program for military children. The Air Warrior Courage program attempts to meet or assist in any valid need that is not provided for by the government, including co-pays. They assist active duty, retired, and former military personnel and their Families.

America's Adopt A Soldier External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

American Veterans (AMVETS) External Link, Opens in New Window

AMVETS, one of the nation's largest Veterans' organizations, is proud to support AW2 Soldiers, Veterans, and their Families by offering services such as advocacy in the Department of Veterans Affairs claims process and financial assistance during recovery. AMVETS' 180,000 members at more than 1,300 posts from coast-to-coast stand ready to support wounded warriors.

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.

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.

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.

Dale Carnegie Training External Link, Opens in New Window

Dale Carnegie offers training to wounded warriors to improve communication skills, strengthen people skills, develop leadership potential, and enhance stress management. Their instructional teams coach, motivate, guide, and hold each individual accountable for progress toward their goals.

The G.I. Go Fund External Link, Opens in New Window

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 to Hometowns External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Hope For The Warriors External Link, Opens in New Window

Hope For The Warriors works to enhance the quality of life for servicemembers and their Families nationwide who have been affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. Their programs offer a full cycle of support, starting with Immediate Needs financial assistance, and continuing through A Warrior's Wish, Warrior's Hope & Morale, Above & Beyond professional development, spouse/caregiver scholarships, Team Hope For The Warriors, and other programs.

National Association for Black Veterans – Washington State Command Council External Link, Opens in New Window

The Washington State Command Council of the National Association for Black Veterans, Inc., (NABVETS) provides strategic advocacy on behalf of its membership and personal advocacy on behalf of Veterans seeking assistance with Department of Veterans Affairs claims.

Northern Pines Mental Health Center External Link, Opens in New Window

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 First Response, Inc. External Link, Opens in New Window

Operation First Response (OFR) supports America's wounded warriors and their Families with personal and financial needs. Services are provided from the onset of injury, through recovery, and along the warrior's journey from military life into the civilian world. Financial aid varies as each case is based on individual needs ranging from rent, utilities, vehicle payments, groceries, clothing, and travel expenses.

Operation Homefront of Texas External Link, Opens in New Window

Operation Homefront of Texas provides emergency and morale assistance for troops, their Families, and wounded warriors. They also assist when servicemembers transition from the military to the Department of Veterans Affairs system.

Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation External Link, Opens in New Window

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 External Link, Opens in New Window

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 External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Still Serving Veterans External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

Swords to Plowshares External Link, Opens in New Window

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.

United States Association of Blind Athletes External Link, Opens in New Window

The U.S. Association of Blind Athletes Military Sport Program enhances the lives of disabled Veterans and disabled servicemembers who are blind and visually impaired by accelerating their rehabilitative process through sport, physical activity, and recreation, and assisting servicemembers in their reintegration to their home communities.

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."

Worklife Institute External Link, Opens in New Window

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.