The website is up with all the information for the second Widening the Welcome conference, happening in Columbus Ohio from Sept. 29th to Oct. 1, 2011. Check it out and plan to attend! This event is co-sponsored by the UCC Disabilities Ministries Board and the UCC Mental Illness Network. Visit the website at www.wideningthewelcome.com.
Category Archives: Veterans Health
Honest Talk About Brain Disorders
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Understanding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – Military
An article in the New York Times by Iraq war veteran Michael Jernigan offers a significant educational tool for understanding the transition into society that returning veterans face. [Website Ed.]
October 25, 2009, 9:00 pm
T
he Minefield at Home
By Michael Jernigan
Katherine Streeter
In August 2004, while on patrol with my Marine unit in Mahmudiya, Iraq, I was severely wounded by a roadside bomb. My wounds included a crushed skull and right hand, traumatic brain injury and the loss of both my eyes.
I am not alone. In the past eight years, many of the 35,000 American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home. But many of us have also returned with deep emotional wounds, and those are harder to see.
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Wounded Warrior Care
News Story
Monday, June 01, 2009
By Sandra Basu | U.S. Medicine, June 2009
Used with permission from U.S. Medicine
More support for the family caregivers of those injured in war is needed, a panel of wounded servicemembers and family memb
ers told Congress. Dealing with severe injury and trauma is not easy,†Army Lt. Col. Gregory Gadson, an amputee told a Senate subcommittee. “When we consider the myriad of injuries, as well as the unfamiliarity a typical family has in dealing with an injured servicemember, it is easy to understand how difficult a task it is for recovery.â€
A Soldier’s Story: War affects whole family
Parents feel their son’s stress disorder
Tim Kahlor comforted his son, Ryan, during a Las Vegas Veterans Day parade. Ryan’s experience with post-traumatic stress disorder has turned his father into an antiwar activist. (Rick Loomis/Los Angeles
Times) By David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times / December 21, 2008
Resource Guide for Wounded Warriors and Families
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Returning Veterans and Families Resources
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