DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM

Defenders of Freedom's goal is to help as many Veterans as we can transition to civilian life as smoothly as possible. We understand many Veterans are not getting the support they need when returning home, which leads to homelessness and suicide. We would like to keep them from becoming homeless and help reduce the suicide rate. Additionally, we believe if we can get their brains treated we are setting them up for better success moving forward.

We would like to duplicate our success in communities across the country. We believe Veterans should be taken care of by the communities they live in.

We are in the beginning stages of duplicating what we have done in the North Texas community. One of the key successes we have is during the process of helping Veterans, ask them to help other Veterans who are not as far down the process of transition. It is healing for both of them as they work through the challenges together.

Additionally, we are collaborative with other non profits to offer services that we may not be able to help them with. We are taking a holistic approach and individualizing what we are doing for Veterans.

We have a very good understanding and success rate in helping Veterans. Our track record of working in this space for 13 years has allowed us to build many relationships allowing us to get Veterans connected to the proper people who can help them.
Our challenge is finding people in communities who understand and want to give back to Veterans. Additionally, finding funds to help raise awareness to Veterans.

We have been able to help hundreds of Veterans stay in their homes while searching for jobs or waiting for their benefits to start. Over time we have learned to ask hard questions and make the Veteran accountable for their own success. We have also learned to take each Veteran situation and treat it independently while also having some guidelines on how we help them. For instance; if they are a two car family and the husband is the only one working, we will only pay for his car payment. We don't pay things that are not a necessity for living. We also work closely with the Veteran to determine their progress to stability. Some we have helped multiple times, others only one time. We felt it important not to have hard rules about the help we give, but to hear the situations and help accordingly.
The Veterans we have helped get brain treatment have been able to engage in life on a more productive level. Our goal is to help them get steady careers and become productive members of their communities.