Fort Campbell "Reboot" Gets Grant to Fight PTSD

Fort Campbell PTSD care gets Community Health Foundation funds
Leaf Chronicle
Jimmy Settle, Clarksville
January 9, 2015

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Health Foundation – a public advocacy board entrusted with disbursing public assets flowing from Clarksville Volunteer Health Inc. – approved almost $469,000 in grants this week, including $127,800 for the organization’s first-ever Fort Campbell grant recipient.

Clarksville Volunteer Health is the 20 percent minority joint-venture partner in Gateway Medical Center, and is an entity that exists to transfer revenues and receipts from publicly owned assets in Gateway to the Community Health Foundation for distribution to various health-related initiatives.

Sarah Schwartz, the local Health Foundation’s grant coordinator, said applications were due Nov. 1 for the organization’s January cycle of grants.

“We had quite a few new applicants,” Schwartz said. “We awarded $468,873 in this round.”

Reboot Combat Recovery this week became the organization’s first recipient on post. “We just added Fort Campbell to our grant area last year,” Schwartz said. “They are quite an impressive group and have become so successful in their approach to (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) that they have military bases all over the country calling them. They are going to Washington, D.C., in February to train a group there.”

Reboot exists “to help servicemembers and their families heal from the spiritual and moral wounds of war associated with PTSD and combat trauma.” It was founded in 2011 in Montgomery County, and since that time has served over 400 individuals, at no charge, through a 12-week combat trauma healing course, one-on-one mentorship meetings, monthly reunions and biannual retreats.

Reboot currently has locations at Fort Campbell, Nashville, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. “This grant request for $127,800 was fully awarded and would specifically be for Montgomery County and Fort Campbell citizens,” Schwartz said.
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