Funded by Armed Forces Covenant Fund

Tackling Serious Stress in Veterans, Carers and Families programme

This programme was designed to provide funding for innovative and new ways of working to reduce serious stress in veterans, their carers and families.

This programme is now closed.

    Programme overview

    This programme was designed to provide funding for innovative and new ways of working to reduce serious stress in veterans, their carers and families.

    We funded seven Single Lead Organisations who manage a portfolio. The work within this portfolio supports veterans that are very unwell, their carers and families.

    A graphic giving key features of the programme. This is a complex strategic programme aimed at funding innovative and new ways of working to reduce serious stress in veterans, their carers and families. The programme supports 7 lead organisations across the UK (3 England, 1 Scotland, 1 Wales a2 Northern Ireland) who in turn work with a further 38 organisations to deliver a wide range of clinical and supportive services ranging from addition, counselling, housing and money advice to relationships, peer mentoring and talking therapies. The programme is being evaluated by the university of Chester

    Projects awarded

    Find out more about the projects we supported through this programme.

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    Programme news and evaluation

    The consultation report Tackling Serious Stress in veterans, families and carers
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    October 29, 2018

    Tackling Serious Stress in Veterans, Carers and Families: New tool to enable organisations to connect and build collaborations

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    November 7, 2018

    Tackling Serious Stress in Veterans, Carers and Families: How will the evaluation work?

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    March 8, 2019

    Large Grants worth £5.3M awarded to support veterans with complex needs