TBI and PTSD Services
The Arms Forces provides, at no cost to a veteran with TBI or PTSD, a Life Navigation Coach who gives individual assistance in defining, accessing and navigating the system of supports and services provided by other nonprofit, government, military and community organizations.
The Arms Forces Life Navigation Coach Program Exists because:
- Many services exist to link injured warriors with TBI/PTSD to services while involved in the hospitalization and transition to home care phases, but the needs of our Wounded Warriors does not stop there. TBI/PTSD can cause lifelong challenges to everyday living. Where other services stop, The Life Navigation Coach Program begins.
- TBI is not just a medical issue. A TBI can affect every aspect of a person's life; education, employment, social and family relationships, emotional health, and mobility to name a few. A Life Navigation Coach can assist in gaining access to services for all of these needs.
- Each county and each state has programs and services that differ, yet serve those with very similar challenges. The Federal Programs, are extremely hard to navigate for anyone, yet alone someone with a TBI or PTSD. Most services at the local state and federal level are not set up to handle “personal, individualized services” which are necessary with the individualized needs of those with TBI/PTSD. A Life Navigation Coach does just that; assists our Wounded Heroes with navigating supports for their life, so a quality of life can be achieved.
- Existing services for our veterans are not being fully utilized, whether from social service, military/government, community or faith organizations. Unused programs mean wasted dollars and broken lives.
- Those with TBI/PTSD need to know they are understood. It is a basic human need and when you look fine physically, it is easy for others to think everything is fine on the inside too. With TBI and PTSD, the outside of a person might remain unchanged, while the inside is struggling every moment of every day to overcome the challenge of functioning with a different brain inside their head. The Life Navigation Coaches understand and they are trained to work with abilities as well as disabilities.
- The Life Navigation Coach is a coach, a mentor, a voice of reason, a director, a motivator, a facilitator, an adviser, a target setter, a planner, a time manager, a confidante, an ordinary citizen volunteering for an extraordinary mission; someone who is making a difference in the lives of our Wounded Warriors with TBI or PTSD. We provide an opportunity for our citizens to give back to those who have sacrificed so much for our freedom.
- If you are a Wounded Warrior with TBI/PTSD we exist because of you! Reach out. We want to bring a light of hope to you and your family members!!
The Arms Forces organization is dedicated to bringing a “true face to TBI and PTSD”. Raising the consciousness of the American people as to what traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder are and what they aren’t is an important mission and we are planning a national tour, TILT, The Inspirational Listening Tour, that will be taking our message “to the streets”. Check back often for updates on our progress!! Exciting things to come!
Presently, The Life Navigation Program is serving veterans in Ohio. Plans for expansion to other states are in process.