How to get involved with our project
We welcome your support and engagement with this project.
Ways to get involved:
Ways to get involved:
- Invite us to show our film, Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War, to give a talk or participate at an event.
- Follow our Blog.
- Contact us (below) with your questions and ideas.
- Share this website and our social media with your family, friends and community.
- Learn more about the unique challenges and struggles of military families and children. See our Information + Resources page for facts and recommended readings.
- Support our work financially through our fiscal sponsor, Creative Visions
- Stay connected with us as the Veteran Children Project grows.
How to get involved with the military community
,We offer a list of organizations (below) that provide a range of vital and valued services to our returning veterans and their families who deserve our support. Here are meaningful ways to engage with military and veteran support organizations:
1. Get involved with a military family through your place of worship, local veterans organizations, schools and community centers, or contact a military service organization (listed below). Find out what the needs and opportunities are to volunteer your time and talents and those of your family, to a military family in need of your interest, skills and support.
2. Contribute financial support to a veterans support organization that provides vital services which address the physical and psychological wounds of war, offer job training and coaching, help with transportation and in-home chores, or therapeutic healing retreats for military families and children.
3. Help end homelessness for veterans and their families. Many organizations build or refurbish homes for our military with the help of volunteers.
4. Hire, mentor or provide an internship opportunity to a veteran, spouse or military child.
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5. Become more informed about our wars and their significant impacts on those who serve, their families and their children. Learn more about our 2.7 million American men and women soldiers, what they experience when deployed to our post 9/11 wars, and the physical and psychological challenges they face when they come home. Learn about the impacts of war on military families and children, the ways they sacrifice, struggle and cope:
7. Vote. Be an informed citizen about military matters when evaluating and electing officials at the state and national level. Military service members, their families and children should be a consideration in deciding who we elect, as the military community has served and sacrificed and deserve civilians to have their needs and interests in mind when casting a vote.
8. Take time on National Holidays that commemorate our nation’s military. Put flags at commemoration sites, talk with your family about the meaning of the day, help a veteran get to a parade or gathering. And a meaningful way to observe military holidays is to watch our half-hour documentary,
Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War with family and friends and share it with your place of worship and work. The stories in the film are about us,
as a nation.
1. Get involved with a military family through your place of worship, local veterans organizations, schools and community centers, or contact a military service organization (listed below). Find out what the needs and opportunities are to volunteer your time and talents and those of your family, to a military family in need of your interest, skills and support.
2. Contribute financial support to a veterans support organization that provides vital services which address the physical and psychological wounds of war, offer job training and coaching, help with transportation and in-home chores, or therapeutic healing retreats for military families and children.
3. Help end homelessness for veterans and their families. Many organizations build or refurbish homes for our military with the help of volunteers.
4. Hire, mentor or provide an internship opportunity to a veteran, spouse or military child.
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5. Become more informed about our wars and their significant impacts on those who serve, their families and their children. Learn more about our 2.7 million American men and women soldiers, what they experience when deployed to our post 9/11 wars, and the physical and psychological challenges they face when they come home. Learn about the impacts of war on military families and children, the ways they sacrifice, struggle and cope:
- Go to our Recommended Reading List: for a list of books and articles that will help bring greater understanding about our wars and their costs.
- Go to your local and national newspapers: seek out articles on our post 9/11 wars that have relevance to us all, especially those who serve and their families.
- Listen to local and national news stories on the television or radio: give your attention and interest to stories about our wars and their impacts.
- Use the internet: read from a vast array of stories about our wars, military service, the impacts of war on soldiers, their families and children.
7. Vote. Be an informed citizen about military matters when evaluating and electing officials at the state and national level. Military service members, their families and children should be a consideration in deciding who we elect, as the military community has served and sacrificed and deserve civilians to have their needs and interests in mind when casting a vote.
8. Take time on National Holidays that commemorate our nation’s military. Put flags at commemoration sites, talk with your family about the meaning of the day, help a veteran get to a parade or gathering. And a meaningful way to observe military holidays is to watch our half-hour documentary,
Veteran Children: When Parents Go To War with family and friends and share it with your place of worship and work. The stories in the film are about us,
as a nation.
A List of Veteran Support Organizations
In Massachusetts and New England:
1. Home Base Foundation: www.homebase.org 2. Fisher House Foundation: https://fisherhouseboston.org 3. The New England Center and Home For Veterans: www.nechv.org 4. Veterans, Inc.: www.veteransinc.org 5. Project New Hope: www.projectnewhopema.org 6. Operation Homefront: www.operationhomefront.org 7. Disabled American Veterans (DAV): www.dav.org National: 1. National Military Family Association: www.militaryfamily.org 2. Code of Support: www.codeofsupport.org 3. Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation: www.fallenpatriots.org 4. Wounded Warriors Family Support: www.wwfs.org 5. The Elizabeth Dole Foundation: www.elizabethdolefoundation.org 6. Project Sanctuary: https://projectsanctuary.us 7. Operation FINALLY HOME: www.operationfinallyhome.org Contact UsHave a question? An idea? A comment? A suggestion?
Let us know, we would love to hear from you! Email us directly at: [email protected]
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Creative Visions Foundation is the proud fiscal agent of Veteran Children.
Creative Visions Foundation is a publicly supported 501©3,
which supports Creative Activists who use the power of media
and the arts to affect positive change in the world. All donations are tax deductible.
Creative Visions Foundation is a publicly supported 501©3,
which supports Creative Activists who use the power of media
and the arts to affect positive change in the world. All donations are tax deductible.