Causes: Health, Health Support

Mission: The Arms Forces provides a caring heart and listening ear that helps educate, empower and facilitate change for veterans who have a traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress or other invisible wounds. We build partnerships with our veterans, families, service providers and their communities to inspire hope and remove stigma so challenges can be addressed and lives transformed. The Arms Forces mission was developed using the real experiences and needs expressed by veterans who have TBI, PTS and other invisible wounds. Together, civilian and veteran, we work to open the doors to successful life integration for our country’s veterans and their families.

Results: Though we believe that even one life changed in a positive way is a reflection on the passion and purpose we have for our mission and the lives of our veterans and families, The Arms Forces has been able to have significant successes such judicial decisions, assisting homeless, directly influential in stopping veterans suicide, lowering stigma in communities, opening doors to services from other providers for veterans, create a greater understanding about TBI with service providers from government, social services, communities through educational events, speeches, trainings and nonprofit culture, media relationships. Those with invisible wounds don't measure their lives by no challenges, they measure the quality of their lives by how they got through a single day and how they stayed alive, kept hope in their heart, felt motivated to take another step the next day and to keep moving forward to find that place where they are "at home" in their spirit.