Grace After Fire provides support for and helps women veterans who are returning from active duty so that they can re-engage as mothers, wives and daughters in civilian life.

The Woman’s Heart began operating in 2002, attracting hundreds of women in search of crisis support services. A significant data point was the frequency of women veterans disclosing their chronic use of alcohol and drugs as a means of coping or self-medicating their symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and military sexual assault. The online crisis ratio trends show 8 out of 10 women veterans are in crisis at the time of contact.

This brought about a great initiative, Grace After Fire (“Grace”). Grace is designed to serve women veterans from all eras and branches of service (currently 1.8 million), and is preparing to meet the high numbers of women (approximately 14 percent of the armed services) currently serving. Although women veterans represent less than 6 percent of veterans accessing VA healthcare, 71 percent of the women who do use the VA System have a mental health concern. Unfortunately, a challenge that can occur in offering VA services to women is providing accessible gender-responsive and trauma-informed care at all locations.

Grace is a virtual organization reaching across the nation, and is already engaging with women veterans still in theater as they prepare to come home. Grace’s Board of Directors is comprised of 80 percent veterans, managed by women veterans; and our Clinical Advisory Committee is comprised of 100 percent women trauma experts, researchers, and addiction specialists.

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  • November 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, 3 Women Veterans attended

    Grace After Fire's Women Peer Model Pilot Training
    Grace After Fire is hosting a pilot training to get your feedback on our upcoming Women Veteran's Peer Group Model. The pilot will be from 9am-3pm with lunch and... Learn more

  • September 21, 2011 at 11:45 AM, 2 Women Veterans attended

    Munch & Mingle
    Let's get together over lunch and chat. Credit cards are not accepted at the restaurant, so bring cash. Hope you can make it!

  • September 19, 2011 at 9:00 AM, 7 Women Veterans attended

    Walk & Talk- Mansfield

    They rated it 5.00 5.001 (1 ratings)

    Put on your walking shoes and let's meetup for a Walk & Talk weekday! Feel free to bring kids or "friendly" dogs on a leash! The leash is for the dogs, not the kids! ;)... Learn more

  • September 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM, 3 Women Veterans attended

    Munch & Mingle-Denton

    They rated it 5.00 5.001 (1 ratings)

    Let's meet for lunch or appetizers. Hope to see you there!

  • July 11, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 3 Women Veterans attended

    Lunch or Dinner at in Arlington? Give a time and location you would like to meet
    Sophie, Stacy and I would love to meet with you and would like to set up a time and place. Please help us decide a good time for you and location.
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