Mr. President,
In response to your Executive Order “National Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End Veteran Suicide” of March 5, 2019.
Women Veterans in Crisis – Whispering Oaks Ranch has a shovel-ready plan. A comprehensive plan that with seed funding would result in a 250-patient bed on 350 acres in eight months: women veterans would live with their children for a 3-9 month treatment stay.
GOAL: Ranches across the United States for men and for women.
For a year, I have personally tried to get the attention of Senators and Representatives to sponsor a Bill for seed funding. NO ONE RESPONDS.
Every day that I do not succeed in getting a sponsor for our bill 20+ more veterans commit suicide!
PLEASE HELP WVIC HELP OUR VETERANS.
You have tasked Acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan – Homeland Security Director, Kirstjen Nielsen – Secretary Veteran Affairs Wilkie to come up with a comprehensive plan. WVIC is the answer.
WOMEN VETERANS IN CRISIS HAS THE SOLUTION.
I am ready to fly ANYTIME to meet with you – binder in hand.
Blessings
Ellie “EllieB” Brown
GovernmentLiaison@wvicrisis.org
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RECENT ARTICLE ABOUT THIS NATIONAL EPIDEMIC OF VETERAN SUICIDES, HOMELESSNESS and WVICrisis COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION
US Women Veterans
(excerpt below – full article click here)
by Corey Lynn
Women Veterans in Crisis – Whispering Oaks Ranch: This is the beginning of something extraordinary for the forgotten women veterans and their children. Hope is on the horizon, with an incredible group of individuals, working together to facilitate a community-based, comprehensive therapeutic campus – the first of its kind in the US.
Women Veterans in Crisis; Whispering Oaks Ranch IS the solution to our national crisis for women veterans – organic farming, equine therapy, reintegration treatment, mental health and addiction treatment, career counseling
Expansive views across 350 acres of natural woods and pastures, is the opening scene as one enters Whispering Oaks Ranch – far different from that of a VA center or institutional facility. Whispering Oaks Ranch pilot program is the first-in-the-nation campus to provide unique services for women veterans suffering from the combination of PTSD, military sexual trauma (MST), opioid and substance addictions, homelessness, despair, and suicidal actions. A resounding 70% of the 600 veteran lives lost to suicide each month, are not receiving government or VA services. This has created a sense of urgency for women veterans to have a safe place to receive the care they need.
Women Veterans In Crisis is the non-profit organization working diligently to bring Whispering Oaks Ranch to life in Ocala, FL, as a pilot program, with the hopes of developing additional campuses throughout the country. They intend to go before Congress in early 2019 to obtain Federal funding, and already have local support from Marion County, FL. They are seeking the support of patriots to rally for this great cause in bringing awareness to women veterans’ challenges, so they can be provided with the help they deserve. It is important to note that WVIC has implemented non-disclosure agreements, used extensively to control any possible commercialization of the ranch. The WVIC’s focus is on helping women veterans and their families, with this motto in mind: “A homeless lifestyle of hunger, desperation and suicide for our veterans is simply not acceptable!”
Women Veterans in Urgent Need of Assistance
WE OWE IT TO THEM
Female veterans are the fastest-growing subgroup of veterans, as well as the fastest-group of the homeless veteran population. From 2016 to 2017, the number of homeless female veterans increased by 7%, compared with 1% for their male counterparts.
- Crisis stabilization and suicide intervention
- Diagnostic mental health assessment and care
- Nursing assessment and care
- Individual and family counseling
- Addiction and substance abuse counseling
- Group counseling and peer support
- Social wrap-around services such as food, clothes and housing
- Life skills education, including medication administration
- Supported employment
- Supported transitional and permanent housing
- Child care while mom heals
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE
#Veterans #suicideprevention #MST #equinetherapy #Ranch #homelessness #addiction #hope #love #recovery #solution
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How would this be funded?
I am a veteran. I am a woman.
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Greeting Marcy! WVIC has complete shovel-ready plan ready for a Senator/Representative (or straight from the March 2019 Executive Order) to sponsor as a stand-alone Bill before the House and Senate. The seed funding would build ranch #1 – 3 year pilot program – with the goal to be fully self-sustaining as well as build ranches across the U.S. Thank you for your question! EllieB
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