Florida Veterans Foundation Inc.

To serve, support, and advocate for Florida Veterans to improve their quality of life. The Florida Veterans Foundation serves as the statewide organization for Florida Veterans and their families by providing direct services and partnering with state and local governments, Veteran service organizations, and educational institutions to improve their physical, financial, mental, emotional, and social well-being. As the Direct Support Organization for the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs, we support their mission of advocacy; and, advocate for Florida Veterans through local and statewide outreach to educate the public and governmental entities, increasing awareness on Veteran-related issues.

Stay the course and help with Suicide Prevention and Opioid Addiction by supporting our Veterans who need immediate financial assistance that may lead to the above affliction. Currently 23 Veterans take their life everyday and it is our goal to keep them on the right side of the fence and eliminate this figure significantly in support of our Veterans and the reasons that lead to the ultimate demise.

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Goal One: Continue the mission of helping Veterans who have suffered by the pandemic & other symptoms, increasing the awareness & access for mental health treatment for suicide prevention & opioid addiction.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: To help fund treatment for Veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and/or Traumatic ‎Brain Injury and help them enhance their quality of life.‎

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Describe an investment in leadership

Through our board meetings, emails and phone calls, we continuously update the board on the development of Veterans needing assistance in the field. Our eight district directors keep us updated on their local efforts, through quarterly reports, emails and phone calls. We respond with direct leadership support regarding E-learning, remote work support, sunshine law updates and more..

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Our key efforts in mobilization is providing all our board members, collaborating partners with continuous updates on resources, resource providers and how to increase community engagements through E-learning, emails and phone calls.

Florida Veterans Foundation in support of the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs has ‎aggressively approached service to Florida Veterans through collaboration with statewide ‎associations and organizations and state agencies who have a vested interest in solving those issues ‎that plague Veterans and ultimately affect Florida and the economy. Our approach is measured ‎through continued outreach and educational services and programs to help 1) find Veterans to ‎register for VA benefits 2) help Veterans in emergency crisis situations 3) make Veterans aware of ‎the many resources available to them to enhance their quality of life. This is accomplished through ‎the enlistment of services and resource organizations with similar missions. Our efforts continue to ‎realize successes within the Veteran communities and is gaining the attention of varied levels of ‎government within the state of Florida. These accomplishments are setting the standard for the rest ‎of the nation to follow. Over the last two years our staff and funding were challenged, but we have ‎persevered through strategic collaborations and created a vital volunteer network statewide.‎