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Veteran Resources

Organizations supporting military and veteran life

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Hotline for veterans 877-424-3838

Crisis line 800-273-8255 ext. 1

Basic Medical Benefits Package: https://www.usa.gov

Advocacy & Resources

  • Active Heroes

  • Adaptive Sports Grant Program (VA)

  • Air Warrior Courage Foundation

    • Website: https://airwarriorcourage.org

    • Description: Meeting veteran and their family wherever the need is with financial assistance for medical, educational, and other extraordinary expense

  • American Corporate Partners

  • American Legion

  • Army Emergency Relief

  • Association of the United States Army (AUSA)

    • Website: https://www.ausa.org

    • Description: Nonprofit educational and professional development association serving America’s Army and supporters of a strong national defense, to educate, inform, and connect with soldiers, families, Army civilians, the voice for the army, and honoring those who served

  • Catholic Charities

    • Website: https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org

    • Description: A broad array of services to all people in need, including veterans.

  • * Children of Fallen Heroes Program

    • Website: https://www.fallenpatriots.org

    • Description: Scholarships to military families such as laptop computers to the children and spouses of military personnel who gave their lives in the ongoing conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan.

  • * Children of Fallen Heroes (military, foster care, first responders)

    • Website: https://www.childrenoffallenheroes.org

    • Description: remember heroes, support groups, memorial activities, community outreach, resources and referrals, honoring heroes tour with professional parachute demonstration

  • Elizabeth Dole Foundation

  • Disabled Veteran Loan Forgiveness

  • Forgotten Not Gone

  • Helping Hands for Freedom (HHFF)

    • Website: https://www.helpinghandsforfreedom.org

    • Description: Emergency assistance to active duty, veterans, wounded veterans, and gold star families with honorable discharge experience dramatic life change, wounded, facing multiple deployments, killed in actions, and suffering from injuries in the line of duty. Children 18 or under must reside in the home. Assisting with emergency payments, housing costs, utilities, transit, car repairs, financial assistance

  • $ Hidden Heroes

    • Website: https://hiddenheroes.org

    • Description: serves combat wounded, critically ill, and catastrophically injured service members and families to inspire, and raise awareness for military caregiver issues, provides inspiration and a national registry to help find resources and support, applications for free respite care for someone who cares for a military spouse, child, parent, or friend; financial assistance through the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation to caregivers on bring of homeless and hungry, struggling to pay bills, unexpected care costs, unpredictable benefits review application the first 10 days of each month

  • $ H.E.R.O.E.S. Care

    • Website: https://www.heroescare.org

    • Description: combines the power of national organizations dedicated to providing emergency financial aid, employment opportunities, and mental health care services through a network of specially trained caregivers before, during, and after deployment.

  • $ The Independence Fund

  • Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)

  • Jared Allen’s Homes for Wounded Warriors (JAH4WW)

    • Website: https://homesforwoundedwarriors.com

    • Description: Builds and remodels handicapped accessible homes to suit the individual needs of injured US military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Lady Veterans Connect

  • Leave No Veteran Behind

  • Military Housing Assistance Fund (MHAF)

    • Website: https://usmhaf.org

    • Description: Assists active military and veterans with purchasing a home

  • Military Child Education Coalition

    • Website: https://www.militarychild.org

    • Description: MCEC supports all military-connected children by educating, advocating, and collaborating to resolve education challenges associated with the military lifestyle. Program features include call for the Arts program, newsroom, guides for transition, milkids soar on-demand webinars

  • Navy Seal Foundation

    • Website: https://www.navysealfoundation.org

    • Description: Provides critical support for the warriors, veterans, and families of Naval Special Warfare.$ Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (NMCRS)

  • Operation Family Fund

    • Website: https://www.operationfamilyfund.org

    • Description: grants for veterans with no health insurance, cash assistance, pay for medical expenses haven been served in operation enduring and Iraqi Freedom and have been injured while serving

  • $ Operation First Response, The Last Mission Project PTSD - the Battle on & off the field

  • Operation Homefront

    • Website: https://operationhomefront.org

    • Description: Provides veterans with the opportunity to move into an operational homefront home, must be able to cover certain expenses such as property taxes, insurance, warranty, HOA fees, and $100 per month toward closing costs. OH also provides financial assistance to help military families get through their short-term, financial struggles such as emergency payments, help for food, utilities, car repair, vision care, and other financial assistance

  • Packages for Warriors

  • Project New Hope

  • $ Purple Heart homes

  • $ Sentinels of Freedom

    • Website: http://sentinelsoffreedom.org

    • Description: Assists wounded veterans with VA disability of 60% or higher with higher education through the bridge for education program and transition assistance, mentorship

  • Semper Fi Fund

    • Website: Semperfifund.org

    • Description: Financial support that arise from hospitalization and recovery, adaptive housing, adaptive transportation, service member and family support, education and career transition assistance, PTS and TBI support, America’s Fund, Team Semper FI

  • * Soldier’s Angel - Deployed Adoption Team

    • Website: https://soldiersangels.org

    • Description: Matches soldiers with an angel, sending 4 letters and one care package a month until the service member returns home

  • Salvation Army for Veteran Families (SSVF)

    • Website: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org

    • Description: Assists low-income veterans and their families in obtaining permanent stable housing through case management, peer mentoring, and advocacy, linkage to resources, training in life skills, coping skills, housing preparation, budgeting, credit counseling, legal services, job preparation, and employment search, financial assistance addressing housing barriers, mediation between landlord and tenants

  • United Way

  • US Departments of Veteran Affairs - Programs (Move)

  • US Department of Veteran Affairs - Housing

  • US Department of Veteran Affairs - Other Assistance

    • Website: https://www.va.gov

    • Description: homelessness, special housing adaptation grants, disability compensation, caregiver programs helping with dementia, memory problems, postpartum depression, GI Bill assistance, home loans, work therapy, and mortgaged delinquency, clinical vocational rehabilitation programs, mortgage delinquency assistance, financial counseling, survivor pension, educational career counseling, blind and vision rehabilitation services, spinal cord injuries, healthcare, and special mental health services including mental health services.

  • $ Veterans Emergency Grant Program

    • Website: https://learnmore.scholarsapply.org

    • Description: Emergency financial assistance to veterans and their spouses no longer serving in the military for post secondary education to help them succeed in the competitive job market

  • Veterans Help Site Organization

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Violence Against Humanity

To control another person through abuse, violence, force, coercion & threatening actions or words, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, rape

Sexual violence involves stalking, sexual assault, rape within relationships, technology, military, prisons, medical, and helping professions with intimate partners, incest, elderly, people with disabilities or not at age of consent lead by safe trusting people, strangers, multiple-perpetrators, drugs, deep dark web

It is during the worst storm in your life that you get to see the true colors of the people who say they care about you - unknown

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become - C.J. Jung

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • RAINN (800-6560-HOPE)

  • INHOPE

    • Website: https://www.inhope.org

    • Description: Hotlines around the world that operate in all EU member states, Russia, South Africa, North & South America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Advocacy & Resources

  • 1 in 6

    • Website: Https://1in6.org

    • Description: Helps men who have had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences and also supporting family, friends, partners and providers with resources

  • Academy on Health and Violence

    • Website: http://avahealth.org

    • Description: Integrates finding into society to advances health education and research in the recognition, treatment and prevention of health effects of violence and abuse

  • Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (APIGBV Institute:)

    • Website: Http://api-gbv.org

    • Description: A world free of gender-based violence with equal opportunities for all to thrive.

  • Academy on Violence and Abuse

    • Website: https://www.avahealth.org

    • Description: Advances health education and research through recognition, treatment, and prevention of health effects between violence, abuse and health in order to deliver compassionate quality of care in society

  • American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

    • APSAC Website: https://www.apsac.org

    • Description: Improve society’s response to the abuse and neglect of its children, meeting the needs of maltreated children and families

  • Battered Women’s Justice Project

    • Website: https://www.bwjp.org

    • Description: Ensure effective and just response to victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence and the child exposed to this violence

  • CDC Violence Prevention:

  • Childhelp.org

    • Website: Childhelp.org

    • Description: Formally known as Children’s Village USA, Childhelp assists victims of child abuse, neglect and at-risk children, adult survivors, distressed parents, concerned relatives, mandated reporters nationally and internationally

  • Domesticshelters.org

  • Embracing Project

    • Website: https://theembracingproject.org

    • Description: Peace and healing for youth survivors of violence, sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking, through the development of specialized programs, trauma-informed care, and unconditional support. Features the Purple W.I.N.G.S mentoring program

  • The Crisis Center, Inc.

    • Website: https://thecrisiscenterinc.org

    • Description: Offers support groups, survivor connections, assistance with protection orders, accompaniment at court hearings, referrals, community education and training in Kansas

  • ECPAT

    • Website: https://ecpat.org

    • Description: Focuses on ending the sexual exploitation of children, with a membership of 122 civil society organizations in 104 countries.

  • Futures Against Violence

    • Website: http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org

    • Description: Transforming social norms, Futures Without Violence is a health and social justice nonprofit with a simple mission: to heal those among us who are traumatized by violence today – and to create healthy families and communities free of violence tomorrow.

  • Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence 

    • Website: https://gcadv.org

    • Description: Georgia's statewide domestic violence resource center, empowering survivors, educating the public, advocating for public policy.

  • Georgia Commission on Family Violence 

  • Incite: Women of Color Against Violence:

    • Website: https://incite-national.org

    • Description: A network of radical feminists of color organizing to end state violence and violence in our homes and communities.

  • * I Support the Girls (ISTG)

  • Joyful heart foundation

    • Website: https://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org

    • Description: Respond to sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse to support survivors’ healing. Ending the backlog program, and finding untested rape kits. The I am evidence documentary

  • Manavi

    • Website: www.manavi.org

    • Description: addresses the unmet needs of South Asian women affected by violence, uses a unique blend of culturally specific support services and intervention methods through Western advocacy practices and linguistically traditional techniques to empower violence against women

  • National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse

    • Website: (NHCVA): http://nhcva.org/

    • Description Comprised of health organizations, dedicated to reducing and addressing the health consequences of violence, in all forms, and abuse

  • The National Offices of Violence Prevention Network

    • Website: http://preventviolence.net

    • Description: Better understands violence by collecting and centralizing data from violent deaths obtained from sources including medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement, and vital statistics.

  • ! The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

  • $ U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime

    • Website: www.justice.gov

    • Description: Diverse programs that benefit victims of crime.

    • Features: Terrorism and International Victims Assistance Services programs including the Crime Victim Assistance Emergency Fund, The International Terrorist Victims Expense Reimbursement Program, the Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program

  • National Sexual Violence Resource Center

    • Website: https://www.nsvrc.org

    • Description: Preventing and responding to sexual violence through resources for survivors, support networks, professionals, media and press, events, graphics, etc.

  • Partnership Against Domestic Violence

    • Website: https://www.padv.org

    • Description: PADV works to end the crime of intimate partner violence and empower its survivors.

  • Peace Over Violence

    • Website: http://www.peaceoverviolence.org

    • Description: Dedicated to the elimination of sexual and domestic violence and all forms of interpersonal violence in Los Angeles, CA and beyond.

  • Square One

    • Website: https://squareonegjm.com/

    • Description: Grassroot efforts to expand emergency shelters, case management services, and agency outreach

  • Steps to End Domestic Violence

    • Website: https://www.stepsvt.org

    • Description: To assist the transition to a safe, independent life for those that have been affected physically, emotionally, sexually, or economically by domestic violence abuse and to promote, a culture that fosters justice, equality, and safety

  • Together for Girls

    • Website: https://www.togetherforgirls.org

    • Description: A global partnership bringing together more than 20 national governments, civil society organizations, UN entities, development partners, and the private sector working to advocate for the end of violence, particularly sexual violence, improving violence prevention, healing, and justice in order to create a safer world for children and adolescents, woman and girls.

  • W.O.M.A.N., INC.

    • Website: http://www.womaninc.org

    • Description: Supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.

  • Women’s Habitat

    • Website: https://womenshabitat.ca

    • Description: safe refuge, counseling, support, and advocacy for women and their children who are fleeing violence, surviving poverty

Campaigns

  • No more Campaign

    • Website: http://nomore.org

    • Description: Global Campaign to end domestic violence and sexual assault by increasing awareness, inspiring action, and fueling change to break down stigma, silence, and shame

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Intimate Partner Violence

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • ! The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

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Mass Violence

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Victim Connect: 855-4-VICTIM (855-484-2846), https://victimconnect.org

Advocacy & Resources

  • ! The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

    • Website: https://www.nctsn.org

    • Description: Guidance and resources to support and navigate stress and trauma, find treatments and include a course on child and family stress intervention

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Vision Impairment

Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI) is visual impairment occurring as a result of brain injury characterized by preference for color, preference for movement, visual latency, light-gazing, non-purposeful gazing, visual field preferences, distance vision impairment, absent or impaired visual blink reflex, preference for familiar objects, and visually impaired guided reach

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • A Cure In Sight

  • $ American Council of the Blind

    • Website: http://acb.org

    • Description: Helps with the journey through vision loss and blindness, includes a scholarship program.

  • American Foundation for the Blind

    • Website: http://www.afb.org

    • Description: Striving for equal opportunities for the blind or visually impaired, researching, statistical snapshots, educating and advocating and transforming aging services and supporr

  • Himalayan Cataract Project

    • Website: https://www.cureblindness.org

    • Description: To restore sight and hope for patients who might never have been reached due to unnecessary blindness, almost half are due to cataracts – which can be surgically treated.

  • $ Foundation of American Academy of Ophthalmology

    • Website: https://secure.aao.org/Forms/ECAReferral

    • Description: Connects eligible seniors who are legal residents or US citizens, have not seen an ophthalmologist in three years, are older than 64 yrs old, not eligible for eye care benefits through the VA with local ophthalmologists to provide medical exams

  • Lighthouse International

    • Website: http://www.lighthouse.org

    • Phone: 800-284-4422

    • Description: helps the visually impaired attain goals with mobility and technology (handheld devices, computer systems, etc.), providing training and educational resources for people affected by vision loss and for the blind and visually impaired.

  • * New Eyes for the Needs

    • Website: https://new-eyes.org/
      Description: provides new eyeglasses for children and adults in financial need

  • $ Little Bears Sees

    • Website: Littlebearsees.org

    • Description: Provides families with tools to help children with CVI see including grants for iPads

  • Pediatric Retinal Research Foundation

    • Website: https://www.prrf.org

    • Description: Funding research in the quest for a cure for children with blinding, retinal diseases (PFVs, ROP, Norrie Disease, Coats’ Disease, CCLRS, FEVR/Other)

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  • ACB Scholarship Program

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Voting

Lifelines, Hotlines & Helplines

Advocacy & Resources

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