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H.A.R.T. Foundation for Disabled Veterans, Inc.
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"Healing-Aid-Rehabilitation and Treatment"
The H.A.R.T. Foundation for Disabled 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, PTSD/Mental Health and Prosthetics treatment without regard to their ability to pay. Last year the "VA" reported on CNN that over 6, 500 veterans committed suicide, a rate of 18 per day, out of those 18, ONLY 5 were being treated by the "VA"... 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 IMMEDIATELY. This approach will help save many more lives that are being lost hopelessly due to a waiting list, to "us" these deaths can and will be avoided. 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 local hospitals to develop a model for treatment that will address the needs of soldiers returning from active duty.
These local hospitals and treatment centers have a great interest in what we are trying to accomplish. They have suggested that they are willing to work closely with our agency to provide services to veterans with grants from their facilities as well as considering building our hospital, either on their property or in the local area.
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.
Our budget is still in the early stages of fund research and development and no official budget is available for review. 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, if we lack funding of our own, we work with local funding agencies or treatment facilities offering grants to further support and expedite emergency situations. NO matter what, we help ANY veteran, any state, any time, 24 hrs per day for FREE!
Scaling up Strategy: Over the next three years our goal is to establish the model for treatment for the initial center and to work toward a goal to mirror this model in at least four sites throughout the country.
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 aggressive 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 disabled veterans 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:
H.A.R.T. Foundation for Disabled Veterans, Inc. (Non Profit agency) FULLY EIC/TID Active 501(c) (3) (EIN) HR-20-8515086
Jeffrey Hart~Founder/Pres/CEO
(484) 294-5481
HartFoundationForDisabledVets@Yahoo.com
