American Pain Foundation: Caring for the Caregiver Online Chat
Tuesday, February 17th at 8:00p.m. ET
LIMITED SPACE – MAKE YOUR RESERVATION TODAY!!
National Military Family Association’s Operation Purple® Family Retreat
Operation Purple® Family Retreat Applications Available Now: The National Military Family Association is piloting two Operation Purple Family Retreats. These free, four-day retreats are set in a National Park using nature’s classroom, where families will have opportunities to strengthen and renew relationships, explore their natural surroundings, and participate in fun family-focused activities.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service January 19, 2009
You can help strengthen services for military, veterans, families, and survivors by volunteering to help the efforts of our organizations on this National Day of Service. To find out more about volunteer opportunities to help Coalition organizations, visit our Get Involved page or click here.
Photo: Homes for our Troops
New Directions Chosen as Finalist for HGTV Kitchen Remodel
Great news! New Directions, a nonprofit agency serving homeless and at-risk Veterans, has been chosen as one of eight finalists to have the Women’s Veteran’s Program at Mitchell House in Los Angeles’ kitchen remodeled on HGTV. Voting has begun on HGTV’s web site.
If you’d like to vote for New Directions, each day you can vote once at http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/home/text/0,,HGTV_32656_82769,00.html. Just click on Los Angeles. Voting will continue until March 2nd and two winners will be announced on HGTV on March 15th.
*photo by Bill Youngblood for New Directions
Online Chat with Derek McGinnis, Amputee Advocate, American Pain Foundation
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Please join American Pain Foundation on Friday, November 21st at 8:00 pm ET in APF’s PainAid Chat Room for this Live Chat with Derek McGinnis, the American Pain Foundation’s Amputee Advocate. They will be discussing the importance of exercise as part of a pain care plan.
Treating Post Traumatic Stress in Military Families: A Live Video Teleconference Presented by Coming Home Project
December 4, 12-2 pm
UCSF / Mount Zion
1600 Divisadero St., Herbst Hall, 2nd Fl.
San Francisco, CA
The impacts of war-related trauma don’t reside solely in the Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman or woman. Because humans are wired to connect, the ripples radiate out and affect many, in particular those close to the veteran: including his or her spouse, children, siblings, parents, marital relationship, extended family, and significant others. READ MORE »
TAPS OFFERS WEBINAR ON “WORKING WITH THE BEREAVED: SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2008
Veterans Day
Thank you for what you do each and every day: for your military service, and for your service and support to military, veterans, families, and survivors. There is a lot happening this Veterans Day. Here are some highlights of events happening among our CIAV organizations:
Pain and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: What’s the Connection?
From American Pain Foundation: On October 20, 2008 American Pain Foundation hosted a live audio presentation with guest Joseph Bobrow, PhD, a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and Zen Buddhist teacher with the Coming Home Project, a program which addresses the mental, emotional, spiritual and relationship challenges faced by Veterans and their families. Joining him was Brenda Murdough MSN, RN-C, Coordinator of APF’s Military/Veterans Initiative.
The Art of Cultivating Self-Care and Well-Being: a Retreat for Service Providers by Coming Home Project
Who cares for the care provider?
Rabbi Hillel wrote:
“If I am not for me, who will be?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
If not now, when?”
We may know about secondary trauma, but it takes resolve to stop, look and listen, and then to respond proactively to signs of compassion fatigue. READ MORE »
