Veteran to Veteran Hot Line
A veteran-to-veteran hot line established six years ago in New Jersey to provide crisis counseling and prevent suicides among the state’s military servicemembers has been expanded nationwide. Vets4Warriors is a 24-hour-a-day help line is staffed by nearly 40 specially trained veterans. It’s administered by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey at the school’s Piscataway campus. The toll-free hot line is 1-855-VET-TALK. More information about the program is available at the Vets4Warriors website at Vets for Warriors.

Horses Healing Humans
Horses Healing Humans, Inc in Voluntown has a new program for US Veterans and we are looking for additional participants. Local Veterans who might benefit from Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapy as a participant or volunteer, please contact Lee Paradis, Director at lparadis@gmail.com or 860-460-4107. There is no charge to the Vets-they have pre-paid with their service.

However, we are always looking for grants, sponsorships, or other funding resources to cover the horse, facility, and Instructor costs associated with offering this program. Currently our Vets meet on Saturday afternoons from 1-5pm. Other dates and times will be added as needed.

The program is run by PATH, Int’l certified Therapeutic Riding Instructors and Mental Health Professionals along with our specially trained equine staff of 5 horses. The Vets help with farm work, work directly with the horses, and assist each other on mounted and un-mounted work. Please contact me for further information or to schedule a visit, and check out our website at Horses Healing Humans. We look forward to an expanded program in March 2012.

Enfield Hoorah to salute Enfield’s hometown heroes of past, present and future. Their goal to provide a place for local families and members of Armed Forces to come together, share resources and find help when they need it most.

New England Regional Chili Cook Off. ICS New England Regional Chili Cook Off is the biggest ICS sanctioned chili cook off in New England. Benefits the Somers (CT) FD and Patriot Guard CT.

Connecticut Honor and Remember a nationally-recognized flag that would fly as a visible reminder to all Americans of the lives lost in defense of our national freedoms. All Military lives lost not only in action but also in service, from our Nation’s inception.

Connecticut Rolling Flags is a proud unit of private vehicles logging over 68,000 miles thru 13 states, Washington DC, & Canada. Escorts returning troops, Veteran suporrt motorcades, POW-MIA Vigils, Parades, & Veteran’s Funerals.

Female Soldiers Forgotten Heroes is the first community-based transitional home dedicated to homeless female Veterans and their children less than two years of age in Connecticut. FS:FH provides 15 beds of transitional housing with case management services.

Home For The Brave provides safe housing, vocational training and job placement, mental health and addiction services, and life skills coaching to help individuals, especially Veterans, leave homelessness behind.

Wreaths Across America, their mission, Remember, Honor, Teach, is carried out in part by coordinating wreath laying ceremonies on the second Saturday of December at Arlington, as well as veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

Missing In America Project locates, identifies and inter the unclaimed cremated remains of American veterans through the joint efforts of private, state and federal organizations. To provide honor and respect to those who have served this country by securing a final resting place for these forgotten heroes.