Hope For The Warriors® works daily with wounded service members, their families, and families of the fallen to meet immediate financial needs

The Immediate Needs program involves integrated case management on various levels engaging individual wounded service members, the VA and/or the warrior unit in which they are associated, medical professionals (if applicable), the Department of Defense and other nonprofit organizations.

Travel, lengthy hospital stays, loss of income and unexpected expenses create financial burdens for families during a vulnerable and uncertain time in their life. Originally designed to meet short-term needs in the days following an injury, the program has expanded to assist wounded heroes and their families as they navigate through long-term recovery.

Applicants may apply once a year. Payment is always made to a third party, typical grants cover household utilities, gas cards for vehicles to get to appointments, groceries, rent, mortgage, and rental deposits.

The Immediate Needs program addresses needs that are a direct result of a service member's injury.

The following examples of immediate needs, although not a comprehensive list, have been deemed appropriate to the program:

• Travel to bedside where the government does not provide assistance.
• Rental cars
• Lodging assistance
• Assistance with child care
• Groceries
• Gas
• Furniture
• Emergency assistance with essentials to daily living, ie rent and utilities. This occurs during the transition between active duty and disability payments. Must be verified by active duty chain of command or VA case worker.
• Items which assist and or supplement programs at Military Treatment Facilities and VA polytrauma Units

As a general rule, Hope For The Warriors® does not consider the purchase or repair of a vehicle an approved immediate need request.

For more information or to request and Immediate Needs Request Form, please call 910-938-1817 or 877-246-7349 or email imn@hopeforthewarriors.org

We would like to Hope For The Warriors and all its supporters. We have recently been blessed by receiving one of your grants. We are stationed at Ft. Riley Army Base in Kansas, where my husband is an Engineer while I teach preschool. My husband SGT. Jason Melton was injured during his tour in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jason spent six months in Brooke Army Medical Center for his rehab. During this time our savings started to dwindle fast due to supporting two households. Between the traveling expenses and missing work to keep his spirits up, we were sinking fast. We are truly blessed he came home in one piece and received excellent care. We are thankful for organizations like yours to help deal with life's unexpected turns.

We appreciate all you have done for us.
Sincerely,
SGT. Jason & Heather Melton

As of right now, it looks like I may have gotten thru the storm. Although Gustav is stalled out and circling right above me, I can pay may bills for the first time in a very long time. I get to pay my own rent. YAY!!!!! I cannot express in words the magnitude of this situation. Nor can I express the heartfelt thank you that goes out to the people like U that help out the wounded like me that seem to struggle day after day. U have made such an impact on my life and I will forever treasure U and admire the hand that U extended to me that lifted me up off the ground. Truly an answered prayer. Thank U Thank U Thank U!!!

Bravo Delta Delta
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Semper Fi

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MEDICAL ID BRACELETS - SAVE A LIFE
Hope For The Warriors® is proud to partner with American Medical ID to provide quality medical identification jewelry to wounded warriors. Co-founder, Shannon Maxwell, experienced first hand the benefit of a medical alert device when her husband collapsed from a grand mal seizure one year after his injury. He was unable to have an MRI due to retained shrapnel in his brain but was unable to speak for himself. Had it not been for the medical id bracelet he wore, doctors would have proceeded with an MRI, not knowing the consequences of those actions.

Our wounded service members deserve every chance for continued recovery – to include the prevention of unintended consequences and less optimal, potentially harmful intervention of medical response teams, who are not aware of a chronic or rare condition, allergies and use of multiple medications or blood thinners, when that Warrior cannot speak for his or herself. You can help sponsor this potentially life saving gift for our Warriors by clicking on our Donate Today link or by ordering your own medical identification jewelry through American Medical ID. Your purchase can make a difference. Through our partnership, American Medical ID will donate a portion of their sales to Hope For The Warriors®.

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