Help Hospitalized Veterans Inc

“Form 990 is prepared by a certified public accounting firm. A draft of form 990 is sent to hhv's management for their review. Form 990 is then provided to the board of directors for their review before its filing with the irs.”

“The conflict of interest policy is reviewed and acknowledged annually by officers and directors.”

“The board of directors review of contract and salary requirements is based on a salary comparison data provided by an independent survey and contemporaneous documentation of the decision was made for the ceo employment contract.”

“Hhv complies with irc section 6104 and makes its form 1023 and form 990 available for public inspection upon request. Form 990 can also be found on hhv's website.”

“Hhv makes its conflict of interest policy and financial statements available to the public upon request. The organizations governing documents may be made available upon request.”

“This amount includes donated leather, assorted model kits, and other miscellaneous noncash items. See form 990 schedule m for additional information.”

“Help heal veterans' (heal vets) primary mission is to enrich the lives of veterans and military personnel. Healing arts and crafts provide a therapeutic experience for all veterans including those who are hospitalized, in shelters, in convalescent homes and those undergoing therapy for a wide range of physical and mental challenges. The corporation manufactures and distributes therapeutic kits to support the healing of veterans and active duty military, educates the public on the needs of veterans and strives to make a positive environmental impact. Committed to making a positive impact on the environment, many of the kits we manufacture are made up upcycled material. Many veterans experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and/or traumatic brain injury (tbi), which increase the risk for depression, physical injuries, substance abuse and sleep problems. The kits, provided free of charge to the veteran, become a part of the patient's treatment plan, giving them a creative outlet along with tangible therapeutic and rehabilitation benefits. They improve fine motor skills, cognitive functioning, memory improvement, anger issues, and dexterity as well as decrease the severity of ptsd/tbi triggers including anxiety, memories, sadness and frustration. We work to involve the public in meeting this mission through a broad education outreach program. Heal vets therapeutic programs provide a meaningful way for individuals, corporations, and other nonprofits to help wounded or disabled veterans; military patients and their families rebuild their lives. Total program impact: the total program impact made by help heal veterans is $16,038,622. This includes: the retail value of the craft kits, public service announcements, therapeutic materials, online public relations, volunteer hours including community-based clinics, and veteran's awareness.”

“Therapeutic materials: during fy 18.19, heal vets shipped 325,150 therapeutic items consisting of arts and crafts kits, with a total retail value of $8,748,104. On average 27,100 individual craft kits were distributed each month. Arts and craft kits were sent to veterans and active duty military recipients in all 50 states, the district of columbia and puerto rico. Kits were also sent to veterans and military service members stationed in kuwait, iraq and germany. The breakdown and value of these materials as follows: recipients: # sent: $ value: craft kits to patient home rehabilitation program 24,250 $196,989 craft kits to 8 heal vets community arts & craft centers 123,334 $3,268,954 craft kits to other programs* 87,047 $2,482,764 craft kits to 39 state veterans homes 17,803 $584,268 craft kits to 14 military medical and other military facilities 18,354 $566,427 craft kits to 22 department of veterans affairs medical centers 52,681 $1,609,234 craft kits to miscellaneous other locations ** 1,681 $39,468 *160+ other veterans' programs such as elks national service commission, sons of amvets, military order of the cooties, volunteers of america, us vets (a transitional housing program for veterans), hero box, american legion and veterans of foreign wars posts, as well as vietnam veterans of america and disabled american chapters. **miscellaneous other locations include craft kits sent to individual veterans as requested but not as part of the patient home rehabilitation program and to events sponsored by help heal veterans. Cbc locations: currently, heal vets has a presence in the following locations. Of note, we ship to veterans and facilities in all states. Heal vets continues to move forward and increase veteran access to its comprehensive therapeutic arts and crafts program through storefront cbc locations, military/state-operated veterans' programs, homeless shelters and other venues in select communities across the country. State: community: facility type: california chula vista, san diego cbc, svh fresno cbc, svh los angeles svh, cbc colorado grand junction cbc (sf), svh florida bay pines cbc (sf) tampa cbc, svh illinois chicago cbc hines cbc maywood cbc (sf) new mexico albuquerque cbc new york buffalo cbc texas san antonio mi, svh temple cbc (sf), mi, svh virginia richmond cbc heal vets currently has a presence in the following locations. [key: cbc=community based center; sf=storefront heal vets center; svh=state veterans home; mil=military facility] patient home rehabilitation program: because many military/ veteran patients are released to home-based or other ambulatory care and rehabilitation programs, they cannot access heal vets arts and crafts in a hospital setting. Heal vets's patient home rehabilitation (phr) program mails therapeutic arts and crafts kits directly to veterans at home. Approximately 5,200 patients were enrolled in the phr program at the end of this reporting period. Heal vets will continue to move forward and increase veteran access to its' comprehensive therapeutic arts and crafts program through storefront cbc locations, military/state-operated veterans' programs, homeless shelters and other venues in select communities across the country. Partnerships: we are honored to join forces with southwest airlines and arise veterans foundation to keep 80,000 pounds of materials upcycled and out of landfills. We are pleased to announce they were co-named our "partners of the year" for 2018. Therapeutic craft kits produced by the donation of 6,094 plane seats, from over 42 planes, created 11 different types of kits: billfolds, wallets, biker wallets, neck id, checkbook covers, stadium seats and lumbar pillows were upcycled into 31,577 therapy kits with a retail value of $875,503. Foam from southwest airlines seats were used as moccasin liners that produced 6,228 moccasins kits with a value of $275,738. Sustainability matters. At help heal veterans sustainability matters is at the forefront of our mission”

“Veterans awareness: mailings: to inform the general public and veterans about heal vets, mailings went to thousands of individuals, informing them about the therapeutic needs of eligible veterans heal vets serves. In total, 8,038,371 letters were sent to individuals who previously provided financial support to heal vets. Additionally, 5,391,688 were mailed to other americans, educating and informing them about veterans, and active duty servicemen and women, who are hospitalized or receiving other medical care. Veterans' awareness topics include craft therapy, partnerships, ptsd awareness, honoring fallen heroes and veteran success stories. These awareness topics were also released through social media and e-mail campaigns. Commemorative partner: heal vets is a proud commemorative partner of the vietnam war commemoration, a program recognizing america's vietnam veterans and their families. The commemoration recognizes the half-century anniversary of the vietnam war by thanking vietnam veterans and their families all across america. The commemorative partner program promotes memorable events and activities that express the contributions of our nation's veterans who served in vietnam, and recognize the losses suffered by many during the vietnam war years. Heal vets' mission is to demonstrate support and respect to active duty military personnel, veterans, and their department of defense families. The objectives of the vietnam war commemoration are to thank and honor veterans of the vietnam war; to highlight the service of the armed forces during the vietnam war; to pay tribute to the contributions made on the home front by the people of the united states during the vietnam war; to highlight advances in technology, science and medicine related to military research conducted during the vietnam war; and to identify the contributions and sacrifices made by united states allies during the vietnam war years. Other awareness initiatives: a series of 30 and 60 second public service announcements (psas) were aired to educate the public on how to 'help heal a veteran and 'help a veteran make it all the way home'. These initiatives were broadcast on 488 radio stations resulting in 89,625 airings. The airtime is valued at $1,713,918 in free advertising/airings. Social media: social media and electronic advertising through facebook, linkedin, instagram and twitter were used to promote awareness and share information on heal vets programs and other veterans' issues. Facebook live videos were produced to inform veterans and the public about how therapeutic craft kits are produced and distributed at the heal vets headquarters. Published articles: 'veterans find hand-crafted healing' by stacie moser, featured in tex appeal magazine, february & march 2019. 'the creative healing journey' by connie lewis leonard, featured in bell county living, fall 2018. 'every day is earth day at help heal veterans' by anna compton, featured in patch online magazine, april 19, 2019. Google ads: as a nonprofit organization, heal vets is able to host its own google ads, focusing on awareness and support to veterans. Specific ads have appeared for web searches on related topics. Outreach to military: the organization continues to expand its craft kit distribution to active duty military personnel hospitalized in various military medical facilities and will continue to provide a craft care specialists to brooke army medical center. Heal vets is now distributing craft kits to select military traumatic brain injury centers. Hiring veterans: heal vets continues to increase its efforts to hire veterans whenever possible. One third of heal vets's ccs's are veterans with 25% of total staff having served.”

“Craft care specialists (ccss) are employees of the heal vets organization who are assigned to 15 community based arts & crafts centers, two military hospitals, and 11 state veterans homes to assist staff in creative arts and craft kit distribution services. There are currently 17 ccs positions, provided at no charge to the institution or the veteran patient recipients. After heal vets products are distributed, the ccss work hand-in-hand with both patients and facility staff in craft kit therapy. The ccss help to recruit volunteers for and provide ongoing support to community events in their locations. A total of 56 regularly scheduled volunteers have given 3,632 hours of volunteer service this year through the ccs program; this is an est. Value of $92,362. Additionally, 112 occasional and regularly scheduled volunteers gave 3,308 hours of volunteer service at heal vets headquarters; this is an est. Value of $84,122. Partnerships have also generated a strong base of volunteers participating in the distribution of our craft kits. Partnership volunteer hours for this period totaled 6,513 hours with an est. Value of $165,626.”

“Pension related changes other than net periodic pension cost -896,762.”