Information

Blending Initiative

Resources

Websites

  • Battlemind
    Battlemind is the Soldier’s inner strength to face fear and adversity with courage. Key components include:
    • Self confidence: taking calculated risks and handling challenges.
    • Mental toughness: overcoming obstacles or setbacks and maintaining positive thoughts during times of adversity and challenge.

    Battlemind skills helped you survive in combat, but may cause you problems if not adapted when you get home.

  • The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
    The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center’s mission is to serve active duty military, their dependents and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care, innovative clinical research initiatives, and educational programs. 

  • The National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD)
    The National Center for PTSD (NCPTSD) aims to advance the clinical care and social welfare of U. S. Veterans through research, education and training on PTSD and stress related disorders.  This site is an educational resource on PTSD and traumatic stress, for veterans and for mental health care providers, researchers and the general public.

  • Military Severely Injured Center
    It serves as a back-stop to every other government program intended to help military members and veterans who suffer severe physical or mental wounds from war. If a severely injured veteran has hit a roadblock with finances, education, job assistance, counseling or child care, they should call the center. The goal is to prevent them from falling through the cracks of more well-publicized programs from the services, the Department of Veteran Affairs or any other federal agency.

  • Military OneSource
    Online and telephone service that provides your with useful information and resources to help you balance your work and family life and for assistance with issues related to emotional well-being.  Available 24/7 at www.militaryonesource.com or at 1-800-342-9647.

  • Veterans Affairs – Seamless Transition Office
    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) web site for returning Active Duty, National Guard and Reserve service members of Operations Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).  We  honor the opportunity to provide assistance to eligible veterans who honorably fought and served in our Nation’s armed forces.

  • Military Handbooks
    Military Handbooks was launched with one simple goal - to give the Military community the very best information available about pay, benefits, retirement planning, education benefits, career decisions, much more! And to provide it to you in a series of straightforward, easy-to-understand handbooks - for FREE!

  • Department of Veterans Affairs – VA Facility Locator
    For your convenience, you can use the search feature to locate facility-related information quickly and accurately by state of by zip code.

  • U.S. Department of Defense –  The Pentagon Channel
    To download the video “The Wounds Within”