Camp Hope
Providing a safe space for the victims of trauma and post-traumatic stress in which to experience healing.
Camp Hope is a six-nine-month interim housing program located in Houston, Texas. We aim to relieve the effects of combat trauma through a whole-person approach. Its solution is to provide peer support, mentor programs, and professional development for America’s warriors and their families. There is no cost for the veteran or their families. The Veterans also have sessions with Licensed Healthcare professionals weekly. There is no other location like it in the United States; to date, 44% of the Veterans have graduated from the Camp Hope program.
History And More
The Facility opened in 2012 and is in a quiet and safe setting in Houston, Texas. Residents attend group lessons and support sessions with other combat veterans. They are provided with individual mentoring sessions with certified combat trauma mentors. Participants can also go on off-site small group interaction activities trips, such as camping, fishing, sporting events, and more. Many are encouraged to get involved with local churches, businesses, and volunteer organizations to assist in their personal healing and educate the community on the invisible wounds of war.
National Outreach
Navigation
Our National Navigation team is strategically operating in a virtual capacity to help veterans that do not reside within a 150-mile radius where we have a chapter. National Navigation’s services include warrior support groups, resource navigation, peer-to-peer mentoring, and logistical support for incoming/outgoing residents for the Camp Hope program.
Outreach
In our Outreach Chapters, we operate in markets with the highest suicide rate among veterans. We currently have chapters in five states and six major cities. Our main goal in Outreach is to help veterans with PTSD and provide them with the Camp Hope program if qualified, peer-to-peer services, warrior support groups, and crisis intervention. Our outreach staff also supports their local communities with PTSD and suicide awareness presentations to challenge them to get involved in veteran issues in their areas.
Clinical Services
Counseling
We provide on-site psychotherapy with licensed mental health clinicians specializing in addiction and trauma. We help to intervene with families understanding that illness of any kind, especially mental health, has a profound effect on the family system.
Medical
We oversee the medical needs of each veteran, coordinating community care as needed.
Chaplaincy
We understand that in an integrated care system, the spiritual needs of each veteran are a vital link in the healing process.
Transition Coordinators
The Camp Hope Transition team bridges the gap between family members and their veterans while the veteran is a Camp Hope resident and after completing the program. The goal is to help the families navigate through their daily lives with a loved one who is dealing with the signs and symptoms of PTSD by providing support, resources, and education, and equipping the families with the tools necessary, inspiring them to live a quality life filled with love, hope, purpose, and normality. PTSD affects not only the veteran but the whole family, and we believe that when the family is healed, the veteran has the best chance of succeeding.
Services provided:
- Peer Counseling.
- Identify resources and community support.
- Support network development.
- Education related to PTSD, substance abuse dependency, & co-dependency.
- Empower families to identify ways to make the necessary behavioral changes.
- Money management
Welcome Home
Vietnam Era Veteran Project
Vietnam Era Veterans represent the largest number of suicides among the 44 veteran suicides per day.
Nevertheless, they are the most disengaged from the treatment. The PTSD Foundation of America is reaching out to “search and rescue” them in preparation of their transition home.
Camp Hope in 2022
The Camp Hope staff is a unique team of certified combat Veterans and civilian pastoral staff trained in working with victims of trauma and post-traumatic stress. They understand those who have served this nation and continue to struggle with the invisible wounds of combat and are working to assist our troops in putting the pieces of their lives back together.
Using the necessary traditional counseling tools and incorporating a whole-person faith-based approach, the staff of Camp Hope push onward in their efforts to help each an every individual camp member on a personal level.
In addition, the staff assists Veterans with a myriad of issues including job placement, coordination with the Department of Veteran’s Affairs and reputable veteran service organizations, transportation to and from appointments and peer support groups integration.
The Camp Hope community fully embraces our troops, Veterans, and their families as they seek the rewarding and fulfilling lives they so richly deserve.
The Camp Hope Program
Phases
Camp Hope is broken up into four separate phases. Each phase varies in length and is geared to prepare the Veteran mentally for the work they will do throughout the healing process. This includes (but not limited to) behavior modification, emotional control, implementing faith, addiction, anger management, etc. The curriculum also includes parenting classes, relationships, and family reintegration. Basically equipping them with productive mechanisms.
The Veterans also receive vocational prep, job training and workforce development along with other life skills needed to transition back into society. Our goal is to move a Veteran in crisis away from just surviving and towards thriving.
Get Involved
We invite you to come and take a tour of Camp Hope and find how you can help as well.
It is hard to imagine where our organization would be without the generous hearts and determined efforts of our loyal volunteers and how they supported us over the years.
Nowhere is this more evident than on the Camp Hope campus. The impact of Volunteers goes far beyond the many homes built to house Veterans going through the program or the landscaping and the facilities. It is about aligning passion with purpose! Everything that is done on this 5-acre piece of land is done to give back to our nation’s heroes.
Volunteering for the PTSD Foundation of America allows the community to be part of the hope and healing taking place here. Find out how you can become a part of the life-saving miracles.
This program is supported by a grant from the Texas Veterans Commission Fund for Veterans’ Assistance. The Fund for Veterans’ Assistance provides grants to organizations serving veterans and their families. For more information, visit www.TVC.Texas.gov.