(GunReports.com) – The Gun Club of America (GCA) recently presented a check for $13,049.50 to The Pathway Home.
Pathway Home is a Yountville, California, non-profit residential recovery program for returning veterans and active duty members of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars who deal with the challenges of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or Post-Traumatic Stress (PTS).
The proceeds were raised through the sales of raffle and auction tickets and a portion of attendance fees from the fourth annual GunStock event held at the Stillwater Firearms Association (SFA) Range in Fallon, Nevada in June 2012. GCA and the American Gunsmithing Institute co-host the event.
Fred Gusman, founder and executive director of The Pathway Home, said, “Not only did GunStock raise over $13,000 for the treatment of post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, it introduced The Pathway Home to an entirely new audience.”
The Pathway Home (TPH) is a program to provide our nation’s “New Warriors” with the tools needed to manage mental health issues which arose during and after military deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq, so they can effectively complete educational programs, gain employment, maintain healthy personal relationships and successfully reintegrate into society.
This successful program has already assisted more than 320 veterans and 150 family members. Although TPH is located on the grounds of the Veterans Home in Yountville, CA, it is not affiliated with the VA, nor does it receive any government funding. The Pathway Home is the only program of its kind in California licensed as a Social Rehabilitation Facility and certified by the Department of Mental Health to operate a residential treatment program for PTS and war-related TBI.
If you were unable to attend GunStock and would still like to make a donation to The Pathway Home, call the Gun Club of America at (800) 435-GCOA (4262) or go to www.ThePathwayHome.org.
