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Grant To Central Texas Hospital Will Provide For Free Mental Health Care To Returning Soldiers
November 15, 2007
On Tuesday it was announced that the Dallas Foundation has given a substantial grant to a Central Texas hosptal to provide mental health care and TBI services to Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, who are suffering from these disorders. The Scott & White Hospital, which is a major medical center in the area, received a grant for $750,000 to provide care for returning Soldiers. The grant will be used to help fund The Homefront Rehabilitation Program at Scott & White.
This is great news for the area, as the nearby military installation of Fort Hood, is home to around 55,000 Soldiers who are in Iraq and Afghanistan, just returning from those theaters or are gearing up to deploy. That’s a lot of Soldiers who may need mental health services, and at this point, military providers are stretched pretty thin, all across the military arena. This new service will provided much needed care to our Warriors returning from the warzones.
“War is a terrible thing and a lot of the Soldiers are coming back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and also with Traumatic Brain Injury,” said Col. Brett Wyrick with Texas Military Forces.
Over the next 2 years the grant will be used by Scott & White Medical Center to provide free mental health care to servicemembers. The hope by officials is that the Soldiers will take advantage of this service and use it. The effects of PTSD don’t have to be crippling or incapacitating, especially when help is available to them. Along with operating the clinic in Temple, Texas, Scott and White will also send out mobile teams of professionals to the communities that have large numbers of returning Soldiers, in the effort of taking the help to them. This grant to Scott & White is part of the Dallas Foundation’s $5 Million Texas Resources for Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Fund (TRIAD),which is being awarded to organizations that help the troops. These grants are designed to help veterans and their families cope with the challenges of daily life during and after their service. To read about more of the organizations who have been awarded grants through the TRIAD fund, please go to the Dallas Foundation’s TRIAD fund page.
This is a great example of a charitable foundation recognizing and acknowledging that a problem exists and doing what is necessary to make sure that the problem is fixed. I applaud the Dallas Foundation members for seeing this need and being willing to ensure that our returning Troops are provided the care that they need.
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