The Permission to Start Dreaming Foundation is proud to be part of a network dedicated to world class care and transformative solutions around brain health and mental wellness for veterans, first responders, and their families’ experiencing symptoms related to PTS, TBI, and substance abuse. Thanks to the generous support of the Avalon Action Alliance, through all of these meaningful organizations, we scale our Post-traumatic Growth programs and initiatives at the following locations: 

warrior pathh & Post-traumatic growth partners

Boulder Crest Foundation is committed to improving the physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic wellbeing of our nation’s military, veterans, first responders, and their family members. Its programs ensure they have the opportunity to live lives of passion, purpose, and service at home.

Gratitude America’s mission is to support service members, veterans, and their families by providing restorative retreats to help with deployment-related stress and traumatic brain injury. Their programs and experiences are designed to help people turn their struggles into strengths so they can live the lives they want. 

The Travis Mills Foundation’s mission is to provide a retreat for post-911 veterans and their families that helps them overcome physical and emotional obstacles, strengthen their families, and rest and relax. The retreat is located in the woods of Central Maine’s Belgrade Lakes Region and offers a variety of programs and resources, including adaptive activities (i.e. horseback riding, yoga, archery, boating, and fishing), other programs like painting, culinary arts, challenge courses, cycling and massage therapy, and bonding with other veteran families. 

In 2011, with the belief his musical talent was given for the purpose of putting more good into the world, Zac Brown purchased 400 acres of pastoral land in Fayetteville, Georgia, about 30 miles south of Atlanta, and built Camp Southern Ground, a world-class facility dedicated to serving youth and veterans. During Summer months, Camp Southern Ground is an inclusive, residential camp serving kids from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, races and religions. For the remainder of the year, Camp Southern Ground’s two veteran programs, Warrior Week and Warrior PATHH, help veterans find community, direction, purpose and healing during – and even long after – their transition back to civilian life. Both programs, provided at no cost to participants, start with a high-intensity week at Camp Southern Ground. 

The Big Red Barn Retreat was built in honor of Leon Irons, who passed away in 2009. Leon served in the Navy out of high school before beginning a successful career in the restaurant business. His family still operates the Sonic Drive-Ins in the Columbia area, as well as some other markets. To honor his life and his love of country, his family opened The Big Red Barn Retreat to help our military in need of healing to find peace.

Sheep Dog Impact Assistance (ADIA) exists to engage, assist and empower our nation’s “Sheep Dogs” (military veterans, law enforcement, fire & rescue, and EMS personnel) to Get Off The Couch TM and reengage in living active, meaningful and productive lives. These heroes have an innate desire to serve and their service gives purpose to their lives; however, after an injury or shift/tour of duty ends, that purpose is often lost. This can lead to addiction, depression, isolation and suicidal ideation. By gathering together Sheep Dogs who have suffered similar experiences for camaraderie, peer support and healing, SDIA strives to prevent suicides in our Veteran and First Responder Communities. 

AVALON TBI CENTERS

The mission: to deliver comprehensive interdisciplinary care, conduct focused research, and export knowledge to benefit military veterans, first/emergency responders, retired athletes, their families, health care professionals and society. At MIBH, we strive to advance training, educational and research activities and support of our clinical cared model.

The mission: to empower post 9/11 veterans and service members with brain injury to live with hope and purpose by providing high quality, comprehensive and personalize rehabilitation care.

We specialize in caring for military veterans of any discharge status. The mission: to aid in the healing, recovery and preventive treatment of veterans by treating the whole Veteran and providing the most comprehensive and multidisciplinary care. We address mild to moderate Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), post-traumatic stress and other physical and psychological health concerns.

The Mission is: to provide barrier free comprehensive and transformative care to Veterans and First Responders for the physical, emotional and cognitive changes that can accompany trauma to the head. Care is integrative and collaborative, treating the whole person: mind body and spirit.

The mission: Duty. Service. Honor. To fulfill our duty to serve veterans and direst responders by improving the evaluation and treatment of service-related traumatic brain injuries through clinical practice research and education.

The Moss Rehab Institute for Brain Health (MRIBH) is a comprehensive traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation program that provides interdisciplinary care to Veterans and First Responders experiencing mild-to-moderate brain injuries and concussions.

MRIBH is a program of Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation, the largest provider of physical and cognitive rehabilitation in the Philadelphia region. 


BRAVE is a Traumatic Brain Injury recovery program specifically designed for military veterans and first responders. It is an intensive, outpatient program that focuses on diagnosing and treating brain injuries so participants can return to normal life. The BRAVE program is the first of its kind in the Midwest and one of only a few in the United States. It was founded by a generous gift from the  Avalon Action Alliance, a post-trauma, wellness non-profit organization that provides care for the “hidden wounds” carried by veterans, first responders and their families. Participants in the BRAVE program receive treatment at the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin Greenfield Highlands Health Center. Our clinic was specially designed for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of brain injuries.


Substance abuse treatment centers

The mission: To heal our nation’s warriors through our private, licensed, and accredited resort-style healing centers. We do this by specializing in substance abuse treatment and co-occurring phycological disorders, with special attention to post-traumatic stress, unresolved grief/loss, and moral injury. 

Who We Are

We are committed to bringing hope and healing to our first responders, military members, veterans and their families dealing with post-traumatic stress and combat trauma.

Do You Need Help?

If you are in a crisis and need to talk right away, or you are concerned about somebody else, there is always someone to listen and help.