Agency Details:

Heartbeat Serving Wounded Warriors

Our mission is to provide emergency assistance, moral support and innovative therapeutic healing services for wounded warriors and their families.

Description:
When brave warriors return home with physical and psychological injuries, everything changes. Health issues present unexpected challenges for the whole family.

Our brave, wounded warriors sustained their injuries while they defended our freedom and way of life. They put their lives on the line for complete strangers. Heartbeat and its supporters firmly believe we owe it to your heroes and their military families to help them heal. After all, they already paid with their lives.

Our goal at Heartbeat is to provide emergency assistance to relive financial burdens; morale programs; support groups for caregivers and therapeutic services.

Our programs are for wounded service members and their families of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.

Heartbeat offers services to all branches of the military in Washington State: Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy.

History:
The events of September 11, 2001, deeply affected many people in our nation. Janice Buckley was one of them. She felt the call to support our nation’s military families but wasn't sure what to do. So she baked brownies for the National Guard.

This began a long journey of volunteer work for the United Service Organizations. From there she met many military families and learned different ways to help.

At one point Janice gathered gift certificates around Washington and gave them to soldiers arriving home from Iraq.

Determined to do more for our nation’s most important resource, Janice founded Operation Homefront Washington (OHWA) in 2004. It became a chapter of the national Operation Homefront organization. By 2008, OHWA had served more than 29,000 families and had grown to more than 250 volunteers.

Janice realized that the organization could do more for wounded service members if the focus was fully on them. In 2009, OHWA left the national organization and changed the OHWA name to Heartbeat—Serving Wounded Warriors. This change reflects its focused mission on wounded warriors and their families.

Contact person: Janice Buckley, President, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (425) 931-1047

Address:

PO BOX 704 Snohomish, WA 98291

Web Site: http://www.heartbeatforwarriors.org

Directions:

Volunteer locations vary depending on event. Locations and directions are provided to each volunteer prior to the event. Volunteer opportunties are located in the North End in Snohomish and South end Fort Lewis/Spanway area.

Miscellaneous Information

Liability
	No
Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	No
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes

Last updated on October 8, 2009