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Veteran Resources

At-a-Glance

Organizations supporting military and veteran life

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Hotline for veterans 877-424-3838 or crisis line 800-273-8255 ext. 1

Supportive Advosources

  • Active Heroes

  • 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

  • * 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

  • Eizabeth Dole Foundation

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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)

  • $ Purple Heart homes

  • $ 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

  • $ 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

  • * 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

  • 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 adaption grants, disability compensation, caregiver programs helping with dementia, memory problems, post-partum depression, Gi Bill assistance, home loans, work therapy, and mortgaged delinquency, clinical vocational rehabilitiation programs, mortgage deliquency 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

Scholarships/Grants

  • The My Career Advancement Account Scholarship Program (MyCAA) allows active-duty spouses to pursue careers

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