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H.A.R.T. Foundation for Disabled Veterans, Inc.
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"Healing-Aid-Rehabilitation and Treatment"
The Hart Foundation for Veterans seeks to provide treatment upon discharge from active duty. Our initiative will allow soldiers to get the help they need in a timely manner by giving them the opportunity to enter drug and alcohol treatment without regard to their ability to pay. Individuals will be supported until such time as veteran benefits become available. Veterans will be able to contact the agency and be directed to an inpatient facility without the regard to the Veteran's ability to contribute financially to their treatment. The aspirations of this innovation are as follows.
- To serve veterans returning from active duty suffering from mental health and addiction issues. First consideration given to veterans without other physical disabilities that are already eligible for services through the veteran’s administration. Based on the established disability ratings of the Veteran’s Administration. Eligible Veterans will be within 12-24 months of discharge from active duty. Enrollment is confidential. No agent of the Hart Foundation is affiliated or responsible to any government agency.
- To Provide services in a timely manner - Providing services upon discharge and up to 6-12 months after returning home.
- To provide mental health services until such time when services are available through public welfare or the Veteran’s Administration. The Hart Foundation seeks to provide expedited services to Veterans and is not intend to provide long term treatment.
- To respect the special needs that are not typically addressed in traditional rehabilitation settings
PTSD
Identification with other Veterans
Group meetings addressing issues unique to combat veterans -
To provide support through integration to civilian society.
Inpatient Treatment and Detox
Medication
Outpatient support
Counseling and psychiatric treatment
Interim short term housing up to 18 months upon successful completion of an inpatient program. Fees for housing to be determined.
Delivery Model: The Hart Foundation is a small agency but tackles the problems its clients face from multiple perspectives. Our goal is to provide assistance to not only treat addiction and mental health issues but relieve the burden faced by many in seeking ways to finance the treatment required to reintegrate these men and women back into civilian society. The VA has been inundated with requests for help, with the overwhelming number of troops returning home. Based on the shear number of men and women returning addiction and mental health issues are being ignored in favor the treatment of physical disabilities as a result of war.
The Veteran’s Administration is overwhelmed and our goal is to make services available and provide hope that freedom from active addiction is possible. Over the past six months The Hart Foundation has identified the resources required to fulfill the vision of our founder. To accommodate this demand, we need to raise $300,000 from foundations and corporations this year.
Key Operational Partnerships: We are negotiating a partnership with Eagleville Rehabilitation Center to develop a model for treatment that will address the needs of soldiers returning from active duty.
The center has a great interest in what we are trying to accomplish and have suggested that they are willing to work closely with our agency to provide services to the service men and women with Grants for treatment in their facility.
Financial Model: PROGRAM EXPENSES
Residential Treatment $250,000
Therapy 2x week 38,000
Psychiatry 12,000
Housing allowance after treatment 20,000
TOTAL EXPENSES $320,000
Cost base for ten men with an aspiration to help ten veterans Quarterly. Ultimately the agency would aspire to help ten soldiers per month. The figures below represent the program cost an additional 250,000.00 is currently required for the administration of the program. This figure will continue to change as the needs for administrative service expands.
Estimated cost for the first year 1,280,000.00
Subsequent years cost 5,120,000.00
What is your annual operating budget? 350k
What are your current sources of revenue? (please list any sources that are foundation grants) The Hart Foundation for Veterans has been submitting inquiries to secure funding from many sources. Our goals are extensive and we are looking for benefactors who will believe in the vision that we've set to achieve.
The Hart Foundation has solicited local unions and corporations to support the works of the foundation through mail campaigns and response has been supportive. These efforts provide a small but essential part of our overall goal.
The Hart Foundation’s fiscal year 2007 goal for private funds is $300,000, this amount represents the amount required to advance fundraising and expand services we are able to provide. Foundations and corporation - leading regional grant makers, grant makers with a special expertise and interest in Veterans affairs, corporate foundations and family foundations alike - are all central to this fundraising effort.
Effectiveness: This project is in an early stage and requires funding in order to continue. We have the support of Senators and military personnel indicating the need for the work we set out to do. To date we have turned away those seeking treatment due to a lack of funding. We have referred the to Eagleville for treatment and they have graciously helped secure the funding to treat the individuals.
The agency will continue it's efforts to raise the awareness of Veterans issues with mental health and addiction to provide support for our cause.
- Stage of the initiative: Start up
- Expansion plan: The foundation has very agressive goals we've partnered with a treatment facility to establish a model of treatment that addresses the needs of veterans not addressed in traditional treatment settings.
Origin of the Initiative: This initiative was born of the struggles of one soldier in need of help. When he approached the Veteran's administration it was clear that in order to get the help he desperately needed he would have to wait until those with more immediate physical needs were treated.
Through a partnership with other recovering addicts an idea was born to provide help to treat these soldiers returning from active duty at the critical point when they returned home from active duty.
Since then the members of the agency have dedicated their efforts to changing the way veterans returning home from war seek treatment.
Contact Information:
Jeffrey Hart~FOUNDER/COO
(610) 442-2054
4625 Kraydor Street, Philadelphia, PA 19136
Hartindustries2007@yahoo.com
http://www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/1409
H.A.R.T. Foundation for disabled Veterans, Inc.
(Non Profit agency) FULLY EIC/TID Active 501 (c) (3) (EIN) HR-20-8515086
Attorney Jeffrey Baxter (215) 348-2088 / (610) 439-3910
Submitted by: Hart Foundation
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