Alberta-NWT Command The Royal Canadian Legion
2020 - 15 St NW T2M 3N8 Calgary, AB, Canada

AB-NWT Command provides ongoing support to world-class research and rehabilitation support for veterans including: HiMARC Military and Veterans’ Research: $60,000 donated in support of research related to military and veterans including Multi-Modal Virtual Reality Based Treatment Study for CAF Members with Combat-Related PTSD (3MDR CAREN study). Additional HiMARC research projects underway include: CAF 3rd Division’s Growth and Resilience Integrated Training (GRIT) Initiative..., Project Trauma Support: Addressing Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury in Military Members at risk of Medical Release, Resilient Parents...Resilient Communities (RPRC): Interventions to enhance resilience among military personnel, veterans and their families, Evaluating Prognostic Factors for Return to Work in Public Safety Personnel Undergoing Treatment for Work-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Injuries, and Brain Bootcamp: An integrated behavioural health intervention for military members with reduced executive cognitive functioning. Donate now at https://poppyboxabnwt.com

In 2019, $3.05 million was collected during the 2019 Poppy Campaign to support local veterans. Help us match or surpass this amount at: https://poppyboxabnwt.com

Your donation to https://poppyboxabnwt.com helps those in your local community, like S.B. My husband joined the military in 1977 and stayed around for 23 years to collect a little pension. In 2018 he started to show troubling changes in his cognitive capability and in 2019 he was hospitalized. During his stay, it was ultimately determined that his dementia would require him to enter long term care and a search for placement started. Needless to say, it was a shock. Whil...e waiting for a residence, hospital fees were accruing and our income was minimal at best. We had no emergency funds to drawn upon, no nest-egg and no family to fall back on when all else failed. Ours was strictly a cheque-to-cheque existence so we were already well-acquainted with stress. I raised our situation with a friend who got me in touch with a local Branch Service Officer. Through it all, the Royal Canadian Legion and its Poppy Fund covered the daily fees applied during my husbands stay at the hospital. They arranged visits from the Branch and provided me with gift cards to tie me over until things stabilized and Veterans Affairs could be brought into the picture. To this day, I have never forgotten the genuine sense of relief and feeling of weight being removed from our lives. I cannot thank the Legion enough for what it does for our veterans and our families. - S.B. See more

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