Combat to Community

Click here to download the e-book Combat to Community: Facts and Figures of Post-9/11 Veterans and their Families.

Swords to Plowshares partnered with the National Center for PTSD to provide First Responder Training.  The training, Combat to Community, provides law enforcement personnel, clinicians and service providers with the resources they need to successfully work with the veteran population. Combat to Community aims to increase awareness and understanding of the issues relevant to the military veteran and first responder communities as they relate to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), and domestic violence (DV).

In addition to the training program, we have also prepared the following paper for the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans to help decipher why this new generation are becoming homeless so quickly in the hope that, by understanding the issues, we may prevent or at least mitigate the kind of long suffering our older clients have endured. The paper looks at bureaucratic, social, economic, and physical and mental health issues impacting our new veterans. It is up to us, as providers, as neighbors, and as citizens to prevent homelessness and truly support our military and veterans with the services and support they have earned.

The presentation below is intended to be an accompaniment to training performed by the Iraq Veteran Project staff and will be updated regularly. For more information, contact Amy Fairweather at afairweather@stp-sf.org.

Combat to Community: Facts and Figures of Post-9/11 Veterans and their Families (April 2010) by Swords to Plowshares is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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