Healing the Hidden Wounds of War

Under the leadership of CEO Zach Iscol, a combat decorated former Marine officer and Iraq veteran of the Battle of Fallujah, and Medical Director Dr. Herbert Hendin, a leading mental healthcare researcher and provider in Postraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), SPI has launched a long term project to provide cost-free, stigma-free, and bureaucracy-free mental healthcare to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

We now lose more of our young service men and women to suicide than to combat. The stresses of returning home, often isolated from your band of brothers and sisters, marked by visible and invisible scars of war, to a nation not at war is an incredible burden to bear. The numbers are staggering. The VA estimates we lose 18 veterans a day to suicide and the Department of Defense reports 30-50 active duty troops take their lives every month.

Fortunately, new research and advancements in mental health care are creating unique opportunities to treat our nations' finest for the hidden wounds inflicted by war. At the forefront is SPI, which is bringing together the leading research scientists and therapists in PTSD to develop and implement a nationwide treatment program to address suicide and mental health among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.