Wounded Warrior Project

Wounded warrior Backpacks contain essential care and comfort items including clothing, toiletries, calling card, CD player, and playing cards, all designed to make their hospital stay more comfortable.  They are provided to severely wounded service members arriving at military trauma centers. A smaller version of the WWP Backpack,...
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Our services don’t end when injured service members are ready to check out of the hospital. Programs such as Family Assistance and Benefits Counseling are designed to meet the long-term needs of wounded warriors. Family Assistance Injury can create an added financial burden on wounded warriors and their families. During rehabilitation,...
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T hrough activities such as hunting, fishing, archery, hiking, and camping, wounded warriors continue their rehabilitation in the great outdoors. WWP Outdoors helps participants build life-long skills they can enjoy in their home communities.  
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What is the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project? The Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project is a partnership between the Wounded Warrior Project and Disabled Sports USA to provide year-round sports programs for severely wounded service members from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and the global war on terrorism....
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Through the generous donations of private citizens, organizations and corporations, wounded warriors are provided opportunities that ease the transition to civilian life. This support is also complemented by both grassroots and national events hosted for the Wounded Warrior Project by volunteers and organizations nationwide. Your help will...
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The Wounded Warrior Project offers many different services to help wounded warriors cope with combat stress or trauma and has a Resiliency Center full of useful information regarding PTSD. Among these services are Project Odyssey events, PTSD seminars, and peer mentoring. Project Odyssey brings together veterans facing combat...
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After five years of helping injured service members successfully transition into civilian life, WWP’s staff, family, volunteers, warriors, and friends came together to honor WWP’s history and founders and formally dedicate Wounded Warrior Project’s Sacrifice Center.  The WWP Sacrifice Center was built to tell...
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In August 2008, WWP launched TRACK to offer 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...
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  Project Odyssey began with the idea to bring together warriors dealing with combat stress to offer them a chance to spend time with fellow warriors and start the healing process. Not all wounds from combat are visible. Combat stress, or post-traumatic stress disorder as it’s more commonly known, has become the largest...
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WWP Launches Warriors to Work (WtoW) T he W2W program works with participants individually to tailor the program to their needs, skills, and interests at each step in the process. Warriors to Work can help draft a résumé, work on interviewing skills, lend a hand in identifying jobs that fit a participant’s...
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“Despite all the publicity, combat stress and PTSD are just clinical words. For those of us who have served in a combat environment, our experiences never seem to fit into those tiny categories. All we know is nothing seems quite right since we came home.” - John Melia-Executive Director WWP What is...
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The best way to learn what happens in counseling is to make an appointment and check it out. Your commitment is only for that initial session. The counselor will ask you about the kinds of problems you are having, when they first started, your family background and your present family situation. You have the right to be treated with respect and...
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“There’s a danger in pushing yourself too hard. This is a long haul, and no one’s a superhero. The best thing you can do for your family member is take care of yourself, because they need you to stay in the fight, too.”   - Sarah Wade – spouse of Wounded Warrior Your...
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What Can I Do If My Family Member Won't Get Help? “For an agonizing hour he poured out his young soul. Then he rose from the chair with tears pouring down his face.” You’re the best doctor I’ve ever met. No one has ever helped me as much as you have. How can I thank you? I had never gotten to say a word....
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Caregivers of Veterans Family Caregivers Alliance www.caregiving.org   Military OneSource www.militaryonesource.com 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   Military Severely...
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Even in the best of times, achieving personal growth is not easy. It is like climbing a steep mountain, riding a bucking horse or skiing down a hill. After a trauma it becomes even more difficult. We may tell ourselves, “ I am damaged and broken.  I can’t do it.” Adversity challenges our deepest and most basic belief that...
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Being Home – Bringing the War With You   “Most people come to me not because of trauma but because of family problems. One of the things we do when we respond to trauma is we shut down our emotions.”           Dean Anthony-Vietnam Veteran, Family...
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“As a prisoner of war, I was tortured, humiliated, starved and left to languish in squalor for six years. I faced feelings of fear, loneliness and failure. The life saving techniques I used in that prison camp had more to do with my value system, integrity and religious faith than anything I had learned from a textbook.” Charlie...
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People may react to trauma in different ways. However there are some common problems that are helpful for families to be aware of.   Fear/Anxiety When any of us is in a dangerous situation it can cause feelings of fear and anxiety. The trauma becomes “imprinted” in the brain and lingers long after the trauma...
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