Bread Financial®, Bob Woodruff Foundation announce multiyear mission to improve mental health care for…

Bob Woodruff Foundation program officers will use the Bread Financial investment to fund leading local mental health service providers focused on increasing the accessibility of high-quality mental health care for military children and their families. These grants will support:

• Direct clinical mental health care for children and their families
• Training for clinicians to be better equipped to meet the needs of military-connected children
• Programs that increase the overall wellbeing of military-connected children, including initiatives focused on social connection

According to a recent survey, more than 70%of Bob Woodruff Foundation's Got Your 6 Network partners reported caring for local families with children in need of mental health services. Only 13%of the service providers said that their organizations could address the full need in their community. The grantees connected to this partnership will be a part of the Foundation's Got Your 6 Network of local boots-on-the-ground service providers addressing the needs of the military community.

Examples of mental health care success stories funded by the Bob Woodruff Foundation can be found here.

"Bread Financial is becoming a national leader in supporting the mental health of kids who are making an extraordinary sacrifice themselves to keep our country safe," said Anne Marie Dougherty, CEO of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. "We are incredibly grateful for the ongoing support of Bread Financial, and for the time and resources it has committed into doing what's right for our nation's military families. Together, will continue to leverage data and expertise as we identify gaps in care and scale local ideas that are proven to help the children of our heroes."

About the Bob Woodruff Foundation
The Bob Woodruff Foundation was founded in 2006 after reporter Bob Woodruff was wounded by a roadside bomb while covering the war in Iraq. Since then, the Bob Woodruff Foundation has raised awareness about the tough challenges veterans and military families are facing, and invested in solutions to help support them in the next chapter of their lives. The Bob Woodruff Foundation has invested more than $170 million to ensure that our nation's veterans, service members and their families - those who stood for us - have stable and successful futures.