Disabled Veterans, General
How can we most effectively provide veteran support to those who've come home with physical and emotional disabilities? If you're a disabled veteran, what programs are available to help you restart your life and move forward? There are a multitude of disabled veterans benefits that cover health care, housing, education, employment - and even small-business start-up. Check here to learn more about the veterans assistance that's available to you or a disabled vet you may know.
With more than 480,000 employees in its ranks, the federal government is a leader in employing veterans not only throughout Washington, DC, but also in states across the nation. With a new initiative, even more veterans should find opportunities to...
Disabled Veterans Find Government Jobs Through New White House Initiative
Operation Freedom pairs disabled vets with service dogs from Freedom Service Dogs, which rescues and trains shelter animals. The dogs help perform daily tasks, break the ice in social situations, and offer continuous emotional support.
Service Pets for Vets: Service Dogs Help Disabled Veterans Heal
Veterans with PTSD and their families have a lot to gain with these bills that do everything from making it easier to receive benefits to granting stimulus funds. Are you eligible?
As a disabled veteran, you may think that your only option for adaptive equipment and durable medical equipment is to take what VA benefits provide. Not so, according to a leading authority and disabled veteran herself who got in the urological...
Disabled Veterans and Navigating the Medical Equipment Maze: Do You Have Choices?
Articles
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games Promote Competition and Camaraderie
The National Veterans Wheelchair Games offers a variety of competitive events, as well as clinics and demonstrations for novice and seasoned athletes alike, over 500 of which come for the friendship...
Video Game Helps Disabled Veterans Conquer PTSD
By helping veterans re-experience the battlefield experience that triggered their post traumatic stress syndrome, this video game may help disabled veterans let go of it.
Paralyzed Veterans of America Expand Adaptive Sports and Fitness Programs
Paralyzed Veterans of America now include handcycling and wheelchair racing programs. With clinics across the country, the goal is to get every disabled veteran out and active. Read about PVA's racing...
Equine Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
With the increase in disabled veterans with post traumatic stress syndrome, the search continues for treatment alternatives. Equine therapy, which encourages patients to make first mental, then...
Integrative Health Heals Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans
Disabled veterans get emotional and spiritual wounds treated at the Integrative Health Clinic, part of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
PGA Programs Utilize Golf as Recreational Therapy For Vets
Several adaptive golf programs for disabled veterans have sprung up around the country. Veterans with disabilities from PTSD to amputation improve self esteem and form friendships through the game.
