Colorado
Psychological Association:
The Support Our
Family in Arms (SOFA) program provides a statewide network of credentialed
volunteer mental health providers offering complimentary counseling services to
Colorado's OEF/OIF National
Guard and Reserve veterans and their families. Contact: Phone 303-692-9303 for
more information.
Deep Streams:
Offers San
Francisco Bay-area OEF/OIF veterans and their families a complimentary
multi-disciplinary program that integrates psychological, meditative and
expressive arts approaches to healing from war.
http://www.cominghomeproject.net/cominghome/
Give an Hour:
Provides
complimentary nationwide counseling services endorsed by but separate
from the military establishment to troops, veterans, and military spouses,
children, parents, siblings.
http://www.giveanhour.org
Merritt
Center:
Retreat program
for military trauma in the Star Valley woods near Payson,
Arizona. Each weekend offers a
different menu of items to aid in trauma release including walks in the woods,
sweat lodge ceremony, therapeutic massage, release exercises of body and mind
and much more.
http://merrittcenter.org/
One Freedom:
ONE Freedom provides education
and training for our nation's warriors and their families regarding the
challenges of military deployments and the return to home.
Located in Boulder, Colorado.
http://www.onefreedom.org/
Return to
Honor:
Free transition
training workshops from Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
aimed at helping returning veterans and their families. It is free to all
veterans including meals and accommodations.
http://www.returntohonorworkshop.com/
Returning Veterans Resource
Project NW:
Offers free and
confidential counseling to Portland-area veterans and their families of
past and current Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns.
Phone (503)
402-1717 or email
info@returningveterans.com for more information
http://www.returningveterans.com/
The Sanctuary:
Offers
'Guardians of Our Way of Life' [soldiers, intelligence professionals, law
enforcement officers, or first responders (Fire/EMS)] and their families
complimentary access to a nationwide network of retreat centers.
http://guardiansanctuary.org/about.htm
The Soldiers
Project:
Free,
confidential psychological counseling for southern
California OEF/OIF vets and their
families. Visit their website, phone 818-761-7438 or email info@thesoldiersproject.org
for more information.
http://www.thesoldiersproject.org/
SOFAR: Strategic Outreach to Families of All
Reservists:
Free
psychotherapy and psycho-educational services for New England families of
Reservists and National Guard members stationed in or returning from
Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait.
http://www.sofarusa.org/
Vets4Vets:
Founded in 2005 by a Marine
Corps combat veteran of Vietnam, Vets4Vets is a place for veterans of today's
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to use peer support to help each other through
speaking and listening. They have workshops throughout the United States.
http://www.vets4vets.us/