The main focus of The Hope Everlasting Foundation is helping former and current service members who are or may be suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through free and confidential therapeutic counseling and /or alternative health methods.

To be fully effective in helping former and current Service Members to cope and manage their PTSD in a successful and healthy way, every day stressors or triggers need to be addressed and provide assistance for.

Our mission is to provide:

• Free and confidential therapeutic counseling and/or other alternative health methods to former and current Service Members who are or may be suffering from PTSD
• Safe and comfortable support groups
• Assistance with resources such as financial assistance with resources such as food banks, clothing banks, tax assistance, etc.
• Job placement assistance to former Service Members and their families as well as current Service Members' families
• Assistance in navigation through the application process for VA benefits such as health insurance and G.I. Bill
• Communications between Service Members who are deployed and their families
• Correspondence to deployed personnel who don't often receive mail from home (i.e. Military Pen Pals)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that is caused by traumatic events where mental anguish is experienced such as a person fearing for their life and those around them, witnessing horrible and horrific things and feeling completely helpless to stop it.

It is a well-known fact that military personnel are highly prone to experiencing PTSD. What is not always acknowledged is that it is not only those in combat who are at risk but also non-combat personnel as well. PTSD can affect the officers who are faced with making the difficult decisions and ordering personnel into harms way. It can impact the medical staff treating the wounded personnel and civilians, or the service members who maintain the equipment such as the vehicles, airplanes, and helicopters. PTSD can also be experienced by the service members who prepare the fallen military personnel’s bodies for transportation back to the States and the service members who escort the caskets on the planes. These examples are only a few, and the bottom line is that PTSD does not discriminate between the combat military personnel and the non-combatant military personnel.

PTSD can cause the person who is suffering from it to be mentally transported to the traumatic event and re-living it with the same feelings of fear, helplessness, and horror as if they were actually there. It can also make a person feel constantly edgy, nervous, angry, and out of control to the point it may make it hard to get through the day. PTSD doesn’t just affect the person who suffers from it but the people who are close to the person such as family and friends, and often it is disruptive to all their lives.

Some groups believe that PTSD is incurable. That is not the opinion and experience of the leading trauma experts in this country. Therapeutic trauma work can restore self-regulation, support a sense of aliveness, relaxation, and wholeness to traumatized individuals who have had these precious gifts taken away. It is not that the traumatized person forgets, but through exploring their symptomology, the person can be to live in the power of their experiences verses the disempowerment and or paralysis of an unacknowledged trauma.