To serve in the military is an honor. In return, our veterans should be recognized and rewarded throughout their life. Especially our veterans with disabilities. These dedicated organizations provide various forms of assistance to US disabled vets.
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The Blinded Veterans Association was established specifically to help veterans and their families meet and overcome the challenges of blindness. Our mission is to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world.
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BrainLineMilitary.org provides military-specific information and resources on traumatic brain injury to veterans. Service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, National Guard, Reserve, and their families. Through video, webcasts, articles, personal stories, research briefs, and current news, people who have been affected by TBI can learn about brain injury symptoms, treatment, rehabilitation, and family issues associated with TBI care and recovery.
BrainLineMilitary.org is part of BrainLine.org, a national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI. BrainLine Military is a service of WETA public TV and radio station in Washington, DC.
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DAV is a nonprofit charity that provides a lifetime of support for veterans of all generations and their families. We are dedicated to empowering veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. With almost 1,300 chapters and 1.3 million members across the country, DAV empowers our nation’s heroes and their families by helping to provide the resources they need and ensuring our nation keeps the promises made to them.
We:
- Ensure that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them.
- Fight for the interests of America’s injured heroes on Capitol Hill.
- Educate the public about the great sacrifices and needs of veterans transitioning back to civilian life.
- DAV is also a leader in connecting veterans with meaningful employment.
Fisher House Foundation is best known for a network of comfort homes where military and veterans’ families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. The Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee.
Fisher House Foundation also operates:
- The Hero Miles program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members;
- The Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge.
- The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses, and children of fallen and disabled veterans.
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Operation Deep Down is the Military branch of Cody Unser’s Great Scuba Adventures. Our program is designed to use Scuba Diving as a tool for therapeutic and psychological value to help heal the wounds of our vets. Showing them what they can do instead what they cannot. Operation Deep Down will provide training and certification for disabled veterans and their chosen dive buddy from start to finish. Ending in the open water on one of Cody’s Great Scuba Adventures.
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Paralyzed Veterans of America, a congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946. The founding band of service members came home from World War II with a spinal cord injury. Paralyzed Veterans national officers and our 34 chapters represent thousands of veterans in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
PVA has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members – veterans who have a spinal cord injury or dysfunction. Today, our work continues to create an America where all veterans and people with disabilities, and their families, have everything they need to live full and productive lives.
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Project Healing Waters – PHWFF” opened=”closed”]Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc.m non-profit organization dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans. Our method is using fly fishing and associated activities including education and outings.
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing began in 2005 serving wounded military service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Since then, PHWFF has expanded nationwide. We now have our highly successful program in Department of Defense hospitals, Warrior Transition Units, and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers and clinics.
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing strives to effectively serve deserving past and present members of our armed forces who have made great sacrifices in the service of our nation. PHWFF provides basic fly fishing, fly casting, fly tying and rod building classes to all clinics participants regardless of their abilities. All equipment for fly fishing and fly tying and all one day or multi-day fishing trips are provided free of charge to participants.
PHWFF is unique in that our volunteers are teaching classes on an on-going, long term basis. It is much more than a one day fishing trip. For many participants, particularly disabled veterans, the socialization and camaraderie of the classes are just as important as the fishing outings and provide them a new activity
[/otw_shortcode_content_toggle] [otw_shortcode_content_toggle title=”Semper Fi Fund” opened=”closed”]The Semper Fi Fund serves post-9/11 wounded, critically ill and injured members of all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and their families. Providing immediate financial assistance and lifetime support. Ensuring that they have the resources they need during their recovery and transition back to their communities.
Serving qualifying post-9/11 Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and reservists. Disabilities include amputations, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injury (TBI), severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), burns, blindness, other physical injuries, or life-threatening illnesses. We also help spouses and children of active duty service members who face a life-threatening illness or injury.
The Semper Fi Fund has been awarded the highest ratings from watchdog groups:
- A+ Top Rated Charity from CharityWatch
- Six consecutive “4-Stars” from Charity Navigator,
- an achievement attained by only 3% of rated charities.
We maintain an extremely low overhead; since our inception, our overhead has averaged only 6% of revenue, and we provide rapid assistance with no red tape.
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VetsFirst brings to bear seventy years of expertise in helping America’s veterans with disabilities, their spouses, dependents, survivors, and other eligible family members. Helping with health care, disability compensation, rehabilitation and other benefits offered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Our services include:
- Direct representation,
- Proactive legislative and regulatory advocacy,
- Individual support and counseling services,
- Guidance on education and employment,
- Timely news and information
- Valuable self-help guides.
https://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/
Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) mission is to honor and empower Wounded Warriors. We focus on those in military service on or after September 11, 2001 and their families. Veterans and service members who incurred a physical or mental injury, illness, or wound, co-incident to their service.
WWP extends our hand to encourage warriors as they adjust to their new normal and achieve new triumphs.military service. Our goal is to foster the most successful, well-adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history. WWP:
- Raises awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members;
- Helps injured service members aid and assist each other;
- Provides unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members.
A variety of programs and services are available thru WWP. We are equipped to serve warriors with every type of injury – from the physical to the invisible wounds of war.
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