Know Your Military Resources

Across the country, military families are looking for assistance on a host of issues. The following resources are non-profits and military agencies that can assist as families seek answers to questions and support for personal challenges.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Servicemember Affairs Office
consumerfinance.gov/servicemembers/
Servicemembers should be able to accomplish their mission without worrying about illegal or harmful financial practices. The Office of Servicemember Affairs is here to ensure that military personnel and their families have a voice at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Military life can have some extra challenges that can sometimes have powerful financial repercussions.

Hope for Warriors
The mission of Hope For the Warriors® is to enhance the quality of life for post-9/11 service members, their families, and families of the fallen who have sustained physical and psychological wounds in the line of duty. Hope For The Warriors® is dedicated to restoring a sense of self, restoring the family unit, and restoring hope for our service members and our military families. Hope For The Warriors® has earned a Four-Star Rating from Charity Navigator ( www.charitynavigator.org ), an independent organization that evaluates fiscal responsibility and accountability of nonprofits.

VA Mortgage Assistance
If you have a VA loan, this link will provide you with a list of resources focused on the workout process.

USA Cares
USA Cares exists to help bear the burdens of service by providing post-9/11 military families with financial and advocacy support in their time of need. Assistance is provided to all branches of service, all components, all ranks while protecting the privacy and dignity of those military families and veterans who request our help. USA Cares is a Kentucky based 501(c)3 non-profit, charitable organization.

Army OneSource
A comprehensive resource for Army service members.

Military OneSource
Throughout Military OneSource, you will be able to find information on every phase of military life including deployment, parenting, financial management, spouse employment and more.

Ride 2 Recovery
Ride 2 Recovery organizes the commemorative bike rides that take wounded warriors from Ground Zero on September 11 through Pennsylvania to the Pentagon a week later.

Soldier Ride
Like Ride 2 Recovery, the Wounded Warrior Project’s Soldier Ride is dedicated to getting the wounded up out of their wheelchairs or rehab clinics and out onto bicycles. Both organizations are looking for riders, volunteers and fundraisers across the United States.

The Fisher House
The Fisher House provides free housing to wounded troops on the grounds of major military hospitals. “It’s a terrific program because otherwise, to have my family with me it would have been a hotel or some other strange place,” said Bobby Henline, who was badly burned in an IED explosion in 2007 and moved into The Fisher House with his family.

Hero Miles
Through its Hero Miles program, the Fisher House Foundation also provides free air transportation for the families of wounded warriors who must travel between home and hospital. The program uses donated frequent flyer miles from the public.

Navy Marine Corps Relief Society
The Navy Marine Corps Relief Fund provides trauma care nurses and volunteers to augment short-staff hospital wards.

Semper Fi Fund
The Semper Fi Fund brings specially adapted clothing to amputees.

Adaptive Adventures
Adaptive Adventures takes disabled veterans on ski trips, organizing adaptive sports, enabling disabled warriors to go fishing, ride horses, mountain climb, even paraglide. Still others provide job counseling and training and help wounded veterans find jobs.

The Mission Continues
To build an America where every returning veteran can serve again as a citizen leader, and where together we honor the fallen by living their values through service.

Project Healing Waters
Many communities across the country are home to organizations dedicated to providing sports and recreation activities to people with physical, cognitive (e.g., PTSD, TBI) and visual disabilities, including disabled Veterans. Programs may be offered through your city’s Parks and Recreation department, a local rehabilitation hospital, or an independent organization that has been established in your area. Find a program near you.

Disabled Sports USA
Disabled Sport USA’s mission is to provide national leadership and opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop independence, confidence, and fitness through participation in community sports, recreation and educational programs.

Wounded Warrior Wives
Wounded Warrior Wives relieves the wives of the severely wounded away from their 24/7 bedside caregiver role and flies them away for a weekend of fun and companionship.

Give an Hour
Give an Hour links up mental help professionals, who donate their time, with military service members and their families, to receive free counseling. This organization can provide assistance beyond the VA, in terms of mental health counseling.

Wounded Warriors
The Wounded Warrior Project aims to honor and empower warriors, who were injured on or after Sept. 11, 2001, through its athletic, employment and rehabilitative programs.

Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America
Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America works to improve the health, education, employment and community opportunities for the veterans through programming and public policy initiatives.

United Service Organizations
United Service Organizations aims to boost our troops’ morale through its entertainment and educational programming. The USO works to provide “a home away from home” for military servicemen and servicewomen stationed in 27 states and 14 countries.

Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront offers a range of programs, including food assistance, vision care and moving services, for military families facing financial hardship.

ServiceNation
Launched in 2008, ServiceNation envisions a United States where a commonly asked question is “Where do you serve?” Through its promotion of national days of service and strategic partnerships across the philanthropic, government, military, entertainment, retail sectors, this nonprofit hopes to inspire a national culture of volunteering among citizens across the United States.

Navy Seal Foundation
The Navy Seal Foundation provides immediate and continuing support to the Naval Special Warfare community and their families through its endowments and health and education programs.

National Military Families Association
The Military Families Association ensures that those who serve in the military — and their family members — gain access to the education and financial benefits that they deserve.

T.A.P.S.
The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors has assisted more than 30,000 surviving family members, casualty officers and caregivers with its peer-based emotional support, case-work assistance, and crisis intervention.

Homes For Troops
Homes For Troops builds specially-adapted homes for servicemen and servicewomen returning home with serious injuries so that they can live in an environment that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live independently.

Disabled American Veterans
The Disabled American Veterans employs a virtual army of 250 national service officers who work from 88 offices across the country to help veterans and their families settle claims with the VA, the Defense Department and other government agencies.

Warrior Writers
The organization helps the wounded express themselves through writing and art.

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