Organizations We Support
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE has developed a series of deep, mutually beneficial, and constructive
working relationships with a series of organizations with whom we feel proud to
be associated.
Please find information below about these organizations, their missions and our
cooperation with them.
United Warrior Survivor Foundation
The United Warrior Survivor Foundation is another FREEDOM IS NOT FREE proud
partner. Co-founders Nick Rocha and Eric Knirk saw an important void that needed
desperately to be filled. And hence, the establishment of The United Warrior Survivor
Foundation (UWSF), an organization committed to providing Survivor Transition Assistance
to surviving spouses of Special Operations personnel from the Navy, Army, Air Force
and Marine Corps killed in the line of duty since 9/11/2001.
UWSF provides much needed financial assistance, financial guidance and planning
support along with college scholarship grants, educational counseling, professional
bereavement counseling, and peer-to-peer mentorship to the spouses, based on need.
UWSF also covers the basic Medical Insurance for those spouses who have gone over
the three year mark since their husbands’ death and lose their family's medical
coverage.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE had the pleasure of working closely with the staff of UWSF on
the planning and execution of their annual Peer-to-Peer conference held in San Diego
in 2006. The event brought a group of UWSF widows and their children to San Diego
for a series of relevant educational events, lectures and support programs which
(based on the lovely “thank you” notes we subsequently received from the participants)
were greatly valued and appreciated. (http://www.frogfriends.com)
Military Severely Injured Center
Military Severely Injured Center, a service of the Department of Defense’s Military
OneSource Program, was established as a 24/7 family support service. The Military
Severely Injured Center (MSI Center) is dedicated to providing seamless, centralized
support -- for as long as it may take -- to make sure that injured service members
and their families achieve the highest level of functioning and quality of life.
Services are provided to severely injured service members or the family member of
a severely injured service member. The dedicated staff at the MSI Center can help
cut red tape; understand what benefits are available and help to get them; identify
resources; and obtain counseling, information, and support.
Injured service members and their families can call MSI Center around the clock
for this free service. A care manager provides personal, ongoing assistance related
to: financial resources; education, training, and job placement; information on
VA benefits and other entitlements; home, transportation, and workplace accommodations;
personal, couple, and family issues counseling; personal mobility and functioning.
The MSI Center coordinates closely with each service branch's injured support program
-- Army Wounded Warrior Program, Marine for Life Injured Support, Air Force Palace
HART, and Navy Safe Harbor.
The MSI Center provides educational materials that can help families understand
and tackle issues related to concerns that injured service members often have, from
helping children and spouses with the challenges they face, to concerns about making
homes and vehicles accessible, to building new relationships. They also provide
a Career Center that supplements their career planning services, including employment
and benefits information for both injured service members and their spouses.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE has been privileged to work directly with three of The MSI Center’s
professional, caring, and dedicated care managers. Each manager has an ever-growing
list of severely wounded service members and families with whom they interact regularly
and attend tirelessly to their specific and personal needs. We are honored to have
played a part in resolving issues of concern to specific severely injured service
members and their families through our support of the MSI Center and hope to continue
to be able to do so in the future as the needs arise.
(http://www.militaryonesource.com/skins/MOS/home.aspx)
Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops,
to the families they leave behind, and to wounded warriors when they return home.
A nonprofit 501(c)3 founded after September 11, Operation Homefront leads more than
2,500 volunteers in 26 chapters nationwide. Since its inception, Operation Homefront
has provided critical assistance to more than 40,000 military families in need.
Operation Homefront provides aid to families struggling not only with emergencies,
but also the problems of everyday life. Existing programs include
- Emergency Aid - Food, baby care items, vehicle donation and repair.
- Computer Program - Allows children and spouses to stay in touch with their loved
one.
- Financial Assistance Program - Crises such as illness, homelessness and death.
- Furniture Program - Donated household and baby furniture; working order appliances.
- Moving - Providing physical labor for families when a service member is deployed.
- Social Outreach - Adopt-a-family, Thanksgiving/holiday baskets, back-to-school supplies.
- Military Mondays - Promotes military discounts at businesses throughout the country.
Operation Homefront also operates CinCHouse.com, the largest informational resource
and Internet-based community for military families attracting up to 900,000 unique
visitors each month. Operation Homefront has also launched eCarePackage.org, the
online care package service that allows citizens to show their support for our deployed
troops and their families (http://www.operationhomefront.net)
Additional non profit organizations that
support the troops:
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