It's #GivingTuesday 2022 - Join in Supporting Project Welcome Home Troops

The SKY Resilience Training (formerly Power Breath Workshop) is so much more than just a few days of reprieve for veterans - In the words of our graduates, it's a "GAME CHANGER."

Project Welcome Home Troops brings sleep to the sleepless. Relief from trauma. Connection to the isolated. Steadiness to racing minds. Processed memories that no longer haunt. Calm to the anxious. Hope to those who have lost sight of it.

Your gift today breathes life into the goal of every veteran having access to this life-saving program.

Nivardo Gonzalez is a graduate of PWHT. He served in the United States Marine Corps 2010-2014, two with combat deployments to Afghanistan in 2011 in Gereshk Valley, and Helmand Province in 2013. "A few years after I got out of the Marine Corps in 2016, one of my friends from my squad, with whom I deployed in 2011, died by suicide. His death led me to seek therapy, and later through that, I found Project Welcome Home Troops. The concept of meditating was new to me, and I figured why not learn it at a deeper level. Life before the workshop was pretty reckless, to say the least. I was extremely irritable, angry, and depressed. I was still a functional person in society, but I was very emotional, and I didn't know how to handle some of those feelings.

I now have the ability to manage my mind and my emotions, thoughts, and actions in a healthy way. I have learned how to live with, accept and move forward with life despite what happened overseas. I have greater confidence and emotional intelligence.

What inspires me is knowing I am not alone in how I felt back when I first got out of the Marines (Depressed & Angry a lot), and I can do something positive about it. In the Marine Corps, we say, “Know yourself and seek self-improvement.” I figured out a solution for my mental health, and now it is my turn to pass that on to someone else."

Checks Payable To Project Welcome Home Troops. Mailing Address: c/o IAHV, 2401 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009