Incredible interview with one of the most respected veterans in America, Ken Falke. Ken has made it his mission to address the mental health and suicide epidemic. He discusses the impact of Coronavirus on veterans across the Nation and the need for Congress to address the issue.
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By Ken Falke, Founder, Boulder Crest Foundation, and Josh Goldberg, Executive Director, Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth Experts predict that an inevitable result of the COVID-19 pandemic will be a mental health crisis. One recent article projects that we could see 75,000 deaths of despair in the coming months. We concur with...
The focus on mental health is again picking up steam as the fallout from COVID continues. Ken Falke, the Founder of Boulder Crest and the EOD Foundation, joins us to to discuss mental health and the veterans community.
Joe Chenelly joins the Nimitz Report to discuss the challenges facing major veterans groups tackling COVID-19. New leadership at VA and much more!
By Sherman Gillums, Chief Advocacy Officer, AMVETS, published in americanmilitarynews.com These are poignant words that speak to our connectedness, or lack thereof, as human beings facing hardship. During the current coronavirus pandemic, or any national emergency for that matter, this sentiment perhaps carries less relevance in times when the “battle”...
By Sherman Gillums, Chief Advocacy Officer, AMVETS, published in libertynation.com As anxieties intensify in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, the nation appears ready, once again, to tap the 1% of Americans who volunteer to protect the remaining 99%. President Donald Trump authorized the Pentagon to activate National Guard and Reserve units, as well...
By Sherman Gillums, Chief Advocacy Officer, AMVETS, published in connectingvets.com As our nation deals with the unprecedented coronavirus epidemic, AMVETS has taken every effort to ensure veterans and their families have access to the life-essential services we offer, such as providing benefits assistance and facilitating timely healthcare access. This has...
By Ken Falke, Founder, Boulder Crest, published in militarytimes.com The Journal of the American Medical Association published a report that confirmed what we have known for some time: so-called “evidence-based treatments” are not working for the vast majority of service members and veterans struggling with PTSD. Put simply, the mental health community...
By Justin Brown, CEO, The Nimitz Group, published in thehill.com When 2,977 Americans were killed on 9/11, we went to war. Yet, year after year, more than 6,000 veterans die by suicide. Since 2006 we have lost more than 79,000 veterans by suicide — a number that eclipses the 10-year American death toll in Vietnam....