The following links may be helpful to you, as a service member, and your family when maneuvering through benefits, adjusting back into civilian and family life, dealing with an injury or trauma, or simply connecting with peers. These websites may not be affiliated with Wounded Warrior Project or its programs.
Established in 1996, The National Alliance for Caregiving is a non-profit coalition of national organizations focusing on issues of family caregiving. Alliance members include grassroots organizations, professional associations, service organizations, disease-specific organizations, a government agency, and corporations.
| Name: | National Alliance for Caregiving |
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| URL: | http://www.caregiving.org/ |
1-800-342-9647 — 24 hour helpline. Consultants provide information and make referrals. Available for all active duty, Guard and Reserve members and their families.
| Name: | Military OneSource |
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| URL: | http://www.militaryonesource.com/ |
| Work: | 1-800-342-9647 |
Military Severely Injured Center (MSI Center) Provides individualized assistance, free to severely injured service members and their families related to financial resources, VA benefits, education, training and job placement, home, transportation and workplace accommodations and counseling. Call 1-888-774-1361, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to speak with a care manager who will coordinate all services for recovery.
| Name: | Military Severly Injured Center |
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| Work: | 1-888-774-1261 |
The National Family Caregivers Association educates, supports, empowers and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for loved ones with a chronic illness or disability or the frailties of old age. NFCA reaches across the boundaries of diagnoses, relationships and life stages to help transform family caregivers' lives by removing barriers to health and well being.
| Name: | National Family Caregivers Association |
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| URL: | http://www.nfcacares.org/ |
Information and ideas just for kids who have a parent deployed
| Name: | Deployment Kids |
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| URL: | http://www.deploymentkids.com/ |
Free summer camps for military kids, through National Military Family Association.
| Name: | Operation Purple |
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| URL: | http://www.operationpurple.com/ |
The Sesame Workshop has produced a Sesame DVD entitled, “Talk, Listen, Connect: Helping Families During Military Deployment”, which is free to active duty personnel through Military OneSource.
| Name: | Sesame Workshop |
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| URL: | http://www.sesameworkshop.org/ |
| Work: | 1-800-342-9647 |
My HealtheVet (MHV) is the gateway to veteran health benefits and services. It provides access to trusted health information, links to Federal and VA benefits and resources, the Personal Health Journal, and now online VA prescription refill. In the future, MHV registrants will be able to view appointments, copay balances, and key portions of their VA medical records online, and much more! My HealtheVet is a powerful tool to help you better understand and manage your health.
| Name: | My HealtheVet |
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| URL: | http://www.myhealth.va.gov/ |
This web site contains information regarding VHA-wide policies, procedures, requirements and other information of general applicability. The VHA Forms, Publications and Records Management Service of the VHA Office of Information maintains the content.
| Name: | VHA Forms and Publications |
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| URL: | http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ |
The official VA Health Care eligibility and enrollment website provides news, documents, forms and online eligibility and enrollment tools.
| Name: | VA Health Care Eligibility and Enrollment for Veterans |
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| URL: | http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/ |
The National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) aims to advance the clinical care and social welfare of U.S. Veterans through research, education and training on PTSD and stress-related disorders.
| Name: | The National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
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| URL: | http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp |
The National Resource Directory (NRD) is an online tool for wounded, ill and injured Service Members, Veterans, their families, and those who support them. The NRD provides access to more than 11,000 services and resources at the national, state and local levels that support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.
| Name: | National Resource Directory |
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| URL: | http://www.nationalresourcedirectory.gov/ |