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Our Mission

Homeward Deployed supports military families through the cycles and transitions of deployment, care-giving, and employment transition.

Homeward Deployed offers two portfolios of services:

► Resilience Coaching for military families, care-givers, and wounded warriors in employment transition

► Transition Boot Camp, a national cross-sector collaboration to revitalize our small business economy and create veteran-friendly jobs in every hometown in America.

At Homeward Deployed, we believe serving the flag should not be a barrier to military families nurturing emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually healthy children.  Our resilience coaching empowers soldiers and their families to maintain strong family bonds while moving through a parent’s deployment and to successfully reintegrate as a strong, resilient family team, honoring the losses and changes that come with deployment and the return from duty. 

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► There are almost 2.5 million soldiers impacted by the Gulf Wars.  The disruption to military families is significant:

► 30% of deployed soldiers question whether their marriages will survive and 15% of deployed soldiers plan on ending their marriages upon returning home... leaving tens of thousands of children to grow up without the benefit of a strong, resilient family.

► 30% of returning soldiers develop serious mental health problems within 4 months of returning home....fewer than half receive treatment...destabilizing families through substance abuse, domestic violence, unemployment, divorce, and even suicide.

NEWS

► Gretchen Martens interviews with B-Digix internet radio

► March 29: National partnership finalized with the Association of Small Business Development Centers (link)

► January 28: Laxton consulting begins developing online veterans' campus(link)

► January 7: Vice Admiral Nancy Brown agrees to chair Homeward Deployed's Board fo Directors (bio)

► January 6: Homeward Deployed begins to participate in the USMC Transition Assistance Program at Henderson Hall

► December 2010: Verizon awards $7500

► November 2010: Colonel David Sutherland keynotes veterans day event (link)

Events & CAMPAIGNS

► Transition Boot Camp: Bridging the Gap Between the Military and Main Street
Link to Executive Summary <read more>

► Northern Virginia Stand Down: Addressing Veteran Homelessness in Northern Virginia, coming soon

► Vets Need S'more Help: Helping Veterans One Bite at a Time, coming soon

► April 5: Brown Bag Lunch—Vet-centric Hiring Incentives (link)

► May 4: Networking Breakfast Featuring Local Veteran-Owned Businesses (link)

► Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce Veterans Task Force

 

OFTEN, THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR IS A SOLDIER’S FAMILY.  THAT’S WHY WE’RE HERE.


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    More than 25,000 military marriages will end in divorce this year alone, leaving tens of thousands of military children without the benefits of a strong, stable family.

  • 66% of women in the military report being sexual assaulted and 27% report being raped; many of these women are wives and mothers.

  • Less than half of the more than 400,000 Iraq War soldiers and veterans diagnosed with PTSD get treatment, putting as many as 100,000 military families at risk.

  • Homeward Deployed incorporates several effective solutions to prevent child maltreatment, efforts cited in an October 2009 Princeton University-Brookings Institution report on preventing child maltreatment.