Wounded Warrior Project Pledges $160 Million to Battle PTSD [View all]

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Wounded Warrior Project Pledges $160 Million to Battle PTSD

23 Oct 2018

Military.com | By Richard Sisk

The Wounded Warrior Project pledged Tuesday to raise $160 million over the next five years that would be funneled to four institutions for two-and-three week courses of intensive treatment for veterans suffering from PTSD and traumatic brain injury.

The fundraising was aimed at veterans who "have the courage -- yes, the courage -- when they return home to seek help," retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Linnington, chief executive officer of WWP, said in an announcement aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan's West Side. "When they return home, they've earned our support, and that's really what today is all about."

According to plans, WWP's Warrior Care Network would distribute $65 million to the "Home Base" program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston; $45 million to the "Road Home" program at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago: $25 million to veterans programs at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta; and $20 million to "Operation Mend" at UCLA Health in Los Angeles.

The total adds up to $155 million. Rob Louis, a WWP spokesman, said an additional $5 million would go to pilot projects at Home Base in Boston and to other projects at "Road Home" in Chicago for a projected total of $160 million.

Louis said the Blue Angels Foundation had already committed $5 million to the fundraising plan, and the bulk of the $160 million was expected to come from continuing donations to WWP over the next five years.
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