Southwest Veterans Foundation (SWVF)
Announces Three Veteran Suicide Prevention Grants
The Southwest Veterans Foundation continued its efforts to reduce Veteran suicides in Arizona by awarding $2,000 grants to three Veteran focused organizations to support their Veteran suicide-prevention efforts. The recipients are:
Deep Sea Valkyries https://www.deepseavalkyries.com/
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Arizona https://www.hbotofaz.org/
Project 24 Seven https://project24seven.org/
To learn more about how these recipients are waging their fights to prevent Veteran suicide, please visit their websites.
Eric Snelz, President of the SWVF Board of Directors, emphasized, “This brings our total Veteran Suicide Prevention Grants awarded to $84,500 as we continue our dedicated fight to do what we can to combat the national tragedy of Veteran suicide.” He also thanked “all who have contributed to our Veteran Suicide Prevention Fund, for without each of you, these grants would not be possible.” Tom Sheets, Executive Director added “we also want to thank our Veteran Suicide Prevention Program Sponsor Devoted Health Plans.”
Arizona has the 6th highest Veteran suicide rate in the nation. Male Veterans commit suicide at 150% the rate of non-Veteran males in the general population. Female Veterans commit suicide at 250% the rate of non-Veteran females in the general population.
The SWVF Veteran Suicide Prevention Program (VSPP) established an initial goal to raise $100,000 to fight this national epidemic. To date they have raised $112,854. If you would like to support SWVF’s Veteran Suicide Prevention Program and enable future grants, you can donate at https://swvcc.org/savealife/, or by calling 602.677.2961
Corporate sponsor of the VSPP
At this special time of the year, we are thankful to all our members, donors, and supporters for their generous support that provides us the resources needed to continue to wage this fight against the national scourge of Veteran suicide. More grants will be announced next month.
I would like to thank everyone for all of their gallant efforts to stop Veteran Suicide. We at Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy of Arizona appreciate your support in helping us help prevent Veteran Suicide. Personally it is my mission in life to make a difference in my corner of the world. Your donations and support help me do just that. The Veterans that we treat with your monitory assistance are very grateful for the help that you provide. May God Bless each and every one of you, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
So proud of all the non profits that do so much to help prevent suicide! And excited that the SW Veteran’s Chamber Foundation and Chamber is raising this kind of money to be able to support these efforts
Veteran suicide has not gone away!! It is important to remember that just because we aren’t engaged in combat, the damage done from those experiences last for years and sometime causes this tragedy.