Homeward Deployed

Homeward Deployed supports the successful transition of our post-9/11 Veterans, Guard, and Reserve so that they thrive on Main Street, strengthening military families and Hometown America. Homeward Deployed offers two portfolios of services:

Transition Boot Camp Portfolio: Putting Veterans, Guard, and Reserve to work in small businesses on Main Street America, where they actually live and where 100% of net new jobs are actually created, including entrepreneurship (self-employment) as an important pathway to economic resilience.

► Preparing Veterans
• Transition Coaching
• Coaching-on-Campus

► Community Mobilization
• Sea of Goodwill Award
• Annual Veteran Transition Summit

Family Resilience Portfolio: Empowering Military and Veteran families to maintain strong family bonds while moving through the cycles of deployment and successfully reintegrating as a strong, resilient family team, honoring the losses and changes that come with deployment, the return from duty, and separation from the Service.

► Family Coaching, including Active Duty LGBT couples and families
► Wounded Warrior Care-giver Coaching
► Family Reintegration Retreats

N E W S

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Sea of Goodwill Competition to open August First (link)

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April 2012: Homeward Deployed written into the National Guard Employment Network

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Gretchen Martens, Founder and CEO, interviews with B-Digix internet radio

EVENTS & CAMPAIGNS

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Homeward Deployed to exhibit at the OutServe International Leadership Conference October 25-28 (link)

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November 8, 2012: Save the date
Homeward Deployed's Homecoming:
A Veterans Day Celebration
November 8, 2012 at 1900
Springfield, VA
Register Here

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Late January 2013: Homeward Deployed's Annual Transition Conference

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

Homeward Deployed (HWD) - boots father and son

Homeward Deployed (HWD) - faces husband and wife

Homeward Deployed (HWD) - father holding baby son

Homeward Deployed (HWD) - faces father hugs and kisses son

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.

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.

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.

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

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