FAIRWAYS FOR WARRIORS INC.

Fairways for Warriors is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in 2010. Our mission is to help combat wounded warriors with their mental and physical rehabilitation. We define a combat wounded warrior as anyone who has served in a combat theater whether a physical injury was sustained or not. We have found that the invisible wounds are usually more difficult to overcome. We welcome combat veterans from any era and have many Vietnam veterans in our program. We use the game of golf as one of the ways to accomplish our mission.
We create a community where the combat veterans and their families know that help is available for all their life challenges - being available 24/7 to talk, meeting the veterans for lunch or coffee, playing golf when they are having a bad day, helping each other with childcare, yard work, or moving. This reflects the same community veterans had in the military.
• We hold no-cost golf clinics, golf tournaments, offer no-cost opportunities for sporting events and other activities to help with the effects of isolation and depression.
• Fairways for Warriors provides counseling for PTSD and anger management as well as marriage counseling. http://acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com/web/
• Fairways for Warriors offers financial assistance by paying for rent, utilities, car payments & repairs, and other things when our members find themselves in need.
• We provide home buying workshops and have teamed with multiple organizations to provide homes for veterans.
• To help with career counseling and job placement
• To help our combat veterans receive service dogs.
We want to increase all of the about activities and services. To increase the number of chapters that we by 1 or 2 per year. We currently have 7 chapters in 5 states.

We will reduce the number of veteran suicides, save marriages and enhance the quality of life of our members through our programs and services. We will create ongoing events to promote camaraderie, brotherhood and spiritual growth to give hope and healing to our nation’s combat veterans. We will seek opportunities to partner with businesses and other foundations to assist us with the needed, services, products, time and financial resources needed for this operation.

Add additional therapist who are trained in combat PTSD and Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). And encourage more of our veterans to try ART.Accelerated Resolution Therapy to help. It has been proven to be very effective in reducing symptoms in as little as 3 to 5 sessions! ART can also help with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, OCD, family issues, etc.
ART is a particularly promising alternative to traditional PTSD treatments, because it uses no drugs, has no serious adverse effects, and can improve symptoms in a few therapy sessions.

Establish Squad Leaders in all of our chapters to check on the well being of our veterans. A Squad is a group of 8 – 12 individuals with a common identity and a sense of solidarity.

Fairways is growing by approximately 4 members per week. In order to ensure that each and every warrior is given the attention and support he/she deserves,
Fairways is forming squads in our membership. These are informal groups but with a dedicated purpose. Each squad will have a leader or point of contact and can be a grouping of whatever works best for each – grouped by home address, gender, friends, whatever, but the size needs to be 8 – 12 members. If a squad gets too large we will break into two squads so that each person feels treated individually.

Squad Leader Responsibilities:
• Check in with each member at least weekly.
• Suggest frequent outings (golf, movie, lunch or dinner) to foster camaraderie.
• Be sure members are aware of events and seminars
• Contact Al for help for any member who is having issues:
PTSD , Physical, Family, Spiritual, Financial, Etc.

1. Added almost 300 members in 2020 and 18 in January 2021.
2. Rolling out squad leaders in the chapters.
3. Encouraging members to get help with PTSD with ART. Using video teleconference to have therapy sessions for veterans who don't feel comfortable going to an office.
4. Working with veterans in Pinehurst, NC to start a chapter. Fort Bragg is near by and there are a lot of active duty and retired combat veterans in the area.
5. Everything revolves around funding so increasing number of fund raising events. And also submitting several grant requests.