Behavioral Health Says Thanks!

09/21/11

A Note from Afghanistan...

I received your gifts and it was a Christmas for us to open the box!

I am a Behavioral Health Specialist. I am currently working in the Combat Stress Control office. Helping soldiers to deal with their stresses and difficulties during combat and operations is our mission. I usually work with a social worker or a psychologist in the mental health clinic. We are helping soldiers here to deal with PTSD and TBI. We do counseling, suicide prevention, coping therapy and stress control classes.

We have lost 4 soldiers since we got here in July. Our job is to go out and give debriefings to the soldiers who lost their battle buddies. Some of the soldiers are having really bad living conditions, so we give out the care packages we received to them. You have helped a lot by changing their living environment and making them feel loved and not forgotten. We also set up a table in our office to put all the donations on it for the soldiers to take when they come in for help.

I can't thank you enough for what you have done and I am really happy that caring people like you are there supporting us like family!!

God bless you and your family!

Very Respectfully,

Fanni