Coming Home Well

Tyler chats with Ken Falke, the Founder and Chairman of Boulder Crest Foundation, which uses the proven science of Posttraumatic Growth to heal, train, and advocate for combat veterans, first responders, and their families who have experienced trauma. Boulder Crest has developed, delivers, and scales transformative programs to ensure these remarkable men and women transform struggle into strength and lifelong growth, so they can live the great lives they deserve, with a highlight on a new, innovative, and effective approach to PTSD and combat-related stress, called PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Training for Healing Heroes)

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Tyler chats with meets with Art and Lee Beltrone, who share the story of the Walker, a troopship that carried soldiers into war and was then mothballed for decades. The discovery of the graffiti and other artifacts led to a project to recover the material for preservation in museums throughout the country. Art Beltrone and his wife Lee formed the non-profit Vietnam Graffiti Project and with other volunteers worked with the Maritime Administration and museums to remove examples of the historic material and relocate the artifacts to American repositories and museums. Among the recipients—the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, museums operated by the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and state and local museums throughout the country. Learn more at www.vietnamgraffiti.com/

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Tyler chats with Army Veteran Matt Hesse, the founder of the FitOps Foundation. FitOps helps veterans who are passionate about health and wellness to find success after the military in the fitness industry. The goal is not just to help veterans to get certified as personal trainers, but to create a path for our servicemen and women to use their leadership skills to help improve the lives of others. FitOps is specifically designed to build on the fitness and leadership experience that veterans gained during their time in the service. The result is Certified Veteran Fitness Operatives (CVFOs) who guide themselves and their clients on a path toward being their personal best, in fitness and in life.

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Tyler chats with Dr. Kent Werner, Lieutenant Commander, US Navy. Dr. Werner is a Sleep Medicine and Neurology Physician who currently works for Uniformed Services University studying sleep disorders in the military and is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins for teaching and research. He discusses the impact of sleep disorders on Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post Traumatic Syndrome and provides recommendations and suggestions for obtaining help.

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Tyler sits down with Brooke Nowak of the GreaterGood.org and learns about the “GoodPacks”, which are one of the many ways GreaterGood works to help keep people, especially veterans, and their companion animals together during crisis such as homelessness. Brooke also shares some of the other great programs Greater Good does to help pets and people, like a food lending bank for animal shelters and “rescue rebuild” to help animal shelters renovate.

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Tyler chats with Dr. Chaitra M. Hardison, an industrial psychologist with the Rand Corporation, who authored "What Veterans Bring to Civilian Workplaces - A Prototype Toolkit for Helping Private-Sector Employers Understand the Nontechnical Skills Developed in the Military". This knowledge gives employers great insight as to why hiring veterans is an asset to their company, along with providing veterans the knowledge of how to share their soft skills developed in the military with potential employers.

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Tyler chats with Mark Whiting, Program Manager of the Military Medics and Corpsman Program (MMAC) at the Department of Veteran Services for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As the first and only program of its type in the nation, the MMAC-Qualified Pathway focuses on recently discharged veterans who served as Army Medics or Navy/Coast Guard Corpsmen or Air Force Medical Technicians. The MMAC also has programs for veterans who have left the military some time ago as well as programs in healthcare leadership.

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Tyler talks with Sylvia Muller, Program Manager for Operations Bigs, part of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Virginia. Operations Bigs focuses on helping military children through challenges in their lives, including the deployment of a parent, frequent moves when the military family changes duty locations in a permanent change of station, and everyday challenges that uniquely affect military children.

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Tyler chats with Dr. Deborah Beidel of the University of Central Florida’s UCF RESTORES, a leading independent research center established to change the way post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is understood, diagnosed and treated. Dr. Beidel shares the unique services they offer at UCF RESTORES to treat PTSD and other trauma, including the use of virtual reality to help overcome wartime stressors. UCS RESTORES has had much success with some amazing success of over 66% of veterans who have attended the intensive outpatient treatment no longer meeting the criteria for PTSD./EP3

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Tyler chats with Barbara Barclay of RightEye to learn how eye-tracking technologies are being used to identify and assist in a wide variety of movement disorders, including Traumatic Brain Injuries and neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s. Barbara relates how eye tracking is being used at 10 Veteran Administration hospitals in clinical trials and some of the dramatic examples of how treating eye tracking issues have helped veterans, athletes, and many others. Institutions that have used RightEye’s database include the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, Richmond Veteran Affairs Medical Center, University of Florida, Emory University, Duke University, and many others. 

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