The Wounded Warrior Project offers a number of rehabilitative, educational, employment and community building programs for WWP Alumni. Throughout the year, we offer a wide range of events and activities around the country designed just for Alumni. These activities include sporting events, educational sessions, and social events that give individuals a chance to spend time with other wounded warriors. Alumni can also participate in many WWP activities and events for newly injured service members.
At WWP, we're committed to supporting not only our wounded warriors, but also the individuals who sustain them on their path to recovery. In the spring of 2008, we launched our Caregiver Retreats to support this unique, devoted group of wives, mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers, and other family members who are helping their wounded loved ones face a range of physical and mental challenges.
Project Odyssey began with the idea to bring together warriors dealing with combat stress to offer them a chance to mutually start the healing process. Not all wounds from combat are visible. Combat stress, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as it's more commonly known, has become the largest disability today's warriors are facing. Too often, individuals with combat stress issues feel isolated. Project Odyssey gives warriors a safe location to come together to acknowledge and understand the issues they are all facing.
TRACK offers wounded warriors an integrated approach to address long-term needs for education and training, advocacy, and secondary rehabilitative care for the mind, body and spirit. This unique program offers participants a range of college preparatory classes and services customized to their needs, helping them build career skills, train in veterans' advocacy, and continue recovery toward a more independent life.
The Transition Training Academy (TTA) provides Information Technology (IT) training for United States Armed Services veterans who have been wounded in the global war on terror and who face unique challenges as they transition to civilian life. As many as 30,000 veterans who have suffered combat-related, serious injuries could benefit from TTA training.
WWP's Warriors To Work program helps individuals recovering from severe injuries received in the line of duty connect with the support and resources they need to build a career in the civilian workforce.
The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project (WWDSP) is a partnership between WWP and Disabled Sports USA to provide year-round sports programs for wounded warriors. We believe that early intervention with active sports results in successful rehabilitation. The wounded warriors and their family members are provided these opportunitites free of charge, including transportation, lodging, adaptive equipment and individualized instruction in over a dozen different winter and summer sports.
WWP Outreach is WWP's web of systematically developing innovative outreach efforts to locate wounded warriors who many not have yet heard of WWP and have unmet needs with which we can assist.
WWP Peer Mentors are often the most positive influence through their friendship and understanding of a fellow wounded warrior during a wounded warrior's initial recovery. It is critically important for the newly injured to know someone who has traveled before them on the same rocky road. WWP Peer Mentors are trained to be resources, listeners and "hospital buddies" who can share their understanding and perspective based upon their own real life successes. Our Peer Mentors also serve as role models to the wounded warrior's family, helping them visualize achievements possible through rehabilitation and hard work.
The WWP Soldier Ride is a rehabilitative cycling program for wounded warriors. For many of these combat-wounded veterans, Soldier Ride provides the first steps in their return to an active lifestyle. Many of these men and women have been physically active throughout their lives. Soldier Ride offers these brave individuals the chance to get on a bike and prove to themselves, "I can still do this."