National Veterans Foundation
At a glance
- Category
- Mental Health
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- nvf.org
About National Veterans Foundation
Published by National Veterans Foundation on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
Our Mission
To serve the crisis management, information and referral needs of all U.S. Veterans and their families through: management and operation of the nation’s first Vet-to-Vet toll-free helpline for all Veterans and their families.
Public awareness programs that shine a consistent spotlight on the needs of America’s Veterans.
Outreach services that provide Veterans and families in need with food, clothing, transportation, employment, and other essential resources.
NVF Most Recent Tax Return 990
NVF Audited Financials
NVF Donor Privacy Policy
The founder of the National Veterans Foundation, Floyd "Shad" Meshad, has been working with Veterans since 1970. Meshad was a Medical Service Officer during the Vietnam War, where he counseled soldiers in the field who were suffering from a multitude of psychological and emotional problems resulting from their experiences in combat, including what would later become known as "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder," or PTSD.
After the war, Shad continued to counsel Vietnam Veterans through his work with the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles. He co-founded the VA’s Vet Center program — 300 storefront facilities throughout the country, located away from VA Hospitals, where Veterans walk in off the street to receive mental health counseling. He also authored the critically acclaimed book A Captain for Dark Mornings, which chronicles his experiences both during the war and after coming home.
Today Meshad remains one of America’s most sought-after experts on Combat Stress, Trauma Therapy and the readjustment issues confronting returning soldiers and their families.
Vietnam Veterans Foundation
In 1985, Shad founded The Vietnam Veterans Aid Foundation (VVAF), a non-profit, 501- (c) (3) human services organization. The mission of the VVAF was to help Veterans in need and their families with a variety of issues. Due to an overwhelming number of requests for help, the VVAF established a toll-free number in 1987 to help Veterans and families in need more easily connect with the assistance they required. The VVAF was the only Veterans outreach service offering nationwide benefits information, resource referral, and crisis counseling via a toll-free helpline.
By 1992, VVAF had become a recognized resource for Veterans of all wars who were struggling to access benefits, locate services, or overcome the emotional scars of war. As a result, in 1992, the VVAF formally changed its name to the National Veterans Foundation, a human services agency committed to serving the crisis and information needs of all veterans and their families.
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Our write-up
National Veterans Foundation is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: nvf.org
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