Call for Mental Health Support from NC National Guard

Colleagues,

North Carolina’s Citizen Soldiers urgently need the support of our state’s civilian mental health providers. Over 4,000 North Carolina National Guard soldiers will be returning from Iraq in early 2010. Many of these combat veterans live more than an hour’s drive from military or VA health facilities. For this reason, these soldiers will choose civilian providers for their and their dependents’ mental health needs.

Please join other mental health providers in connecting soldiers and their families with the services they need by clicking here to include your information in the NCWarWithin.org provider database developed by the University of North Carolina. This easily searchable online directory is available at no cost to servicemembers, veterans, and their families seeking mental health services in North Carolina.

Help them win the war within.

Brigadier General Dan Hickman (ARNG Ret)

*From February 2004 to January 2005, BG Hickman, commander of the 30th Heavy Army Brigade, was in charge of 5,000 National Guard soldiers. In February 2004 the Brigade began a year-long deployment to Iraq. With the deployment, 30th Infantry Brigade became the first National Guard Brigade Combat Team to deploy to a war since the Korean War 50 years earlier. The Brigade was also the first National Guard brigade to have its own area of operation in Iraq. BG Hickman also served as an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam and in the war in Bosnia.