Veterans Graduate WWFS Welding Training Program in August 2025

WWFS Veteran Welding Training Program Graduation August 2025

August 23, 2025 The United States is facing a growing need for skilled tradespeople, with an average of 49,200 welders, solderers, and similar jobs needed each year over the next decade. In response to this demand, Wounded Warriors Family Support (WWFS) and United Automobile Workers-Ford (UAW-Ford) have collaborated to identify and train future welders through […]

Dunham House to Partner with CrossMed Healthcare Staffing

Dunham House to Partner with CrossMed Healthcare Staffing

August 4, 2025 Dunham House, a first-of-its-kind, transformational initiative for combat-wounded veterans in need of long-term residential-centered care for their wounds, will partner with Omaha-based CrossMed Healthcare Staffing to fill medical staffing needs. Omaha-based CrossMed Healthcare Staffing specializes in connecting traveling healthcare professionals with exceptional travel assignments across the nation. CrossMed’s team helps healthcare professionals […]

Pennsylvania Army Veteran Awarded Mobility is Freedom Vehicle Grant through WWFS Donors

Mobility if Freedom Grant Essary Family Wounded Warriors Family Support

May 20, 2025 Imagine the power of freedom, mobility, and independence.  For our brave wounded warriors, like Army Sgt. William Essary, these dreams are becoming a reality through the transformative Mobility is Freedom program.  This initiative isn’t just about providing a vehicle; it’s about restoring the liberty and autonomy that our heroes deserve.  With a […]

Omaha’s Dunham House breaks ground, aims to help combat wounded veterans

Dunham House Groundbreaking Omaha WWFS WOWT

May 6, 2025 It’s a new place for those younger vets in need. “We can do better than sending a soldier off to live with hundreds of other folks who don’t share his experience,” said Col. John Folsom, executive director of Dunham House. Supporters broke ground on the Dunham House Tuesday afternoon. The assisted living […]

Dunham House breaks ground on 30-bed combat-wounded veterans home

Dunham House Groundbreaking Omaha WWFS

May 6, 2025 Dunham House is a facility for combat-wounded veterans in need of long-term residential-centered care for their wounds. The Dunham House is a project in honor of Corporal Jason Dunham, who died at the age of 22 from injuries he sustained in a 2004 grenade attack in Iraq. More than 20 years later, […]

Dunham House Breaks Ground on Transformational Housing for Combat-Wounded Veterans

Dunham House Breaks Ground on Transformational Housing for Combat-Wounded Veterans

May 6, 2025 Between 2000 and 2019, the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center reported nearly 414,000 service members worldwide sustained a traumatic brain injury. In the same period, estimates suggest that between 9% and 28% of service members suffered a TBI. More than 1,300 American service members suffered a full or partial amputation of […]