OUR MISSION

The Mission of the PTSD Foundation of America is to bring hope and healing to Combat Veterans and their families suffering from the effects of combat-related Post Traumatic Stress.

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We do this by taking a whole-person approach, offering evidence-based peer-to-peer mentoring, both on an individual basis and in group settings. In addition, our programs and services are free to the Veteran and their family so that the focus remains on their journey to healing.

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We take a collaborative approach to raising awareness of the increasing needs of the military community by working with government agencies, service organizations, churches, and private sector businesses to combine resources.

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By taking our message to public events, media outlets, social media, and service organizations we can more effectively reach Veterans in crisis and make life-saving impact on the Veteran community.

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OUR VISION

Our vision, is to drastically reduce the Veteran suicide rate.

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The Veteran's Administration (VA) reports that we are losing 20.6 Veterans every day to suicide. We believe the actual daily suicide rate is much higher than what is being reported. Only one-third of American Veterans seek health care from the VA. If a Veteran is not involved in a VA program, then the VA would not have a way to account for that Veteran in the overall total statistics.

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Furthermore, that number does not consider the many Veterans who die each day from alcohol and drug-related incidents that were fueled by an attempt to self-medicate the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We estimate that the actual daily suicide rate is between 25 - 30 every day.

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OUR FOCUS

There are many resources available for help with PTSD. The VA and other services offer counseling and support groups for Veterans who suffer trauma.

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The PTSD Foundation of America focuses specifically on combat trauma because we believe that Veterans dealing with combat specific trauma deserve a safe environment to share their experienced trauma with other combat Veterans. We also believe that PTSD in combat Veterans contributes to the 20+ a day suicide rate.