My name is Briana Roberson and I am an undergraduate social work student working on my Bachelor’s Degree at Austin Peay State University. I have been interning with Soldiers And Families Embraced since January of this year and have been very fortunate to do so.
Read more →For those of you attending our Soldiers Heart Retreat from 7-10 March, here’s an important message from Kate Dahlstedt, Co-Director of Soldiers Heart…
Read more →Great news!! Our series of 5 videos with excerpts from our training series “On The Homefront” are available on Youtube. Just click the link below to view them, or search “SAFEhelpsvets”.
We offer this training to mental health professionals, churches, schools, civic organizations, Family Readiness Groups and the community at large to help build a bridge between them and veterans so that both groups may understand each other better, and to enable them to work together to address the challenges we all face.
For more information, or to schedule this training, contact us using any of the contact info on the website!
TO VIEW THE VIDEOS, CLICK HERE.
Here’s a link to our latest in a series of videos produced for us, explaining what we do and can offer here at SAFE. The link also includes the transcript for the hearing impaired.
ENJOY!
Our latest “Day in the life” entry. This month- Alicia Khim, one of our Masters of Social Work Interns.
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The founders and major supporters of Soldiers And Families Embraced (SAFE) were worried about the turnout for their Clarksville fundraiser on Wednesday until the morning of the event.
Read more →Situated in a military town, APSU has a large contingent of student veterans, and thus has several programs designed to help them, particularly Soldiers and Families Embraced.
Read more →Soldiers and Families Embraced (SAFE) is a valued, community-based resource that provides off-post counseling for many soldiers and family members, including children, suffering from the effects of post-traumatic stress and the aftershocks of soldier suicides. The organization, which started out with only a few clients, now finds itself inundated as a result of its own reputation for effectiveness.
Read more →I’m in the SAFE Offices two days a week advocating and assisting clients, however the bulk of my time is spent at a local middle school as part of a partnership between SAFE and the school. Administrators requested that we consider providing an on-site counselor specifically to work with military connected at-risk kids. Many of these teens have one or both parents who have been deployed multiple times into combat zones.
Read more →This time last year SAFE (then Lazarus Project) had to ask the counselors working for us to either stop seeing clients or work for free. That’s when we had our first fundraiser – the breakfast – which raised enough money to pay our back debts and to pay for counselors for a few more months. We could not stop raising money though and were able to simply stay a month or two ahead.
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