About Bastion Community of Resilience
Bastion is America’s first intentional community designed from the ground up to support disabled veterans and their families through their healthy reintegration into civilian life. We provide a healing environment of 58 one-, two-, and three-bedroom homes where we cultivate meaningful, supportive relationships among neighbors, supplemented by the specialized onsite programs our staff and volunteers administer.
Our three core programs, Residential, Wellness, and Headway, improve health and wellness outcomes for residents and a growing number of veterans from across New Orleans. Each of these programs provides specialized support that leverages our highly socialized environment of neighbor-based care to help our veterans and their loved ones build healthy, reintegrated lives. This approach facilitates a deeply individualized approach to each veteran’s unique needs, reduces barriers to access, and recognizes the core need for meaningful social connections that so many of our veterans share.
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How We Helped
Infinite Hero Foundation has awarded $75,00 in funding for The Veteran Reintegration Project, which will take Bastion’s unique model of community-based care, proven effective through our Headway Program for the mild-to-moderate TBI population, and make it available for the first time to the broader population of veterans struggling with health and wellness challenges. Bastion has piloted this application already through its first Wellness Intensive Series, conducted in early 2024. The Wellness Intensive uses Headway’s core model: a group of veteran peers who learn rehabilitative skills and strategies together while leveraging their newly fostered relationships with one another to build upon those skills. Its first pilot iteration has shown promising results, with 100% of participants reporting positive self-growth and improvements in DASS-21 assessment scores. IHF funds will support year-round iterations of the series, bringing significantly more veterans in contact with Bastion’s unique, transformative model of care.
The Funding
$75,000
2024
