Keeping the families of post 9/11 wounded, ill or injured service members together.
Having loved ones at a service member’s bedside during recovery from an illness or injury provides encouragement so they can heal faster. It also helps foster stronger family bonds. For many wounded warriors, difficult financial situations can prevent family members from being there while they are healing. Waiting on VA benefits to begin can cause delays in reuniting families, and changes in base policy can mean that children are unable to stay with their parents.
Yellow Ribbon Fund eases this transition process with its Crossroads Program—providing rental cars, hotel stays, and fully furnished apartments for patients and their entire families while their service member receives medical care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD —at no cost to military families. This allows families to be together during vital moments when encouragement and hope are most needed.
*Please note that while our primary focus is on fulfilling requests within Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, we are open to considering requests for other hospitals on a case-by-case basis. Each request will be evaluated individually to determine our ability to assist.
Housing
Yellow Ribbon Fund provides fully-furnished apartments and hotel stays to meet the needs of our families caring for their loved ones at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
We’ve partnered with the local community and hotel chains to provide quality comfort through often difficult and intimate circumstances.
Transportation
From day one, Yellow Ribbon Fund has provided free rental cars through our partner, Fitzgerald Auto, to visiting families of injured and ill service members who are receiving long-term care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
Rental cars enable families to remain independent during a challenging time.
They provide a convenient means to travel to and from the hospital and for necessary local trips while facing often turbulent days of treatment.
