We heard from Will Beiersdorf, a veteran who founded Palatine-based Salute Inc. in 2003 to help out fellow veterans financially. Today he serves as executive director of the Road Home Program at psychiatry department at Rush University Medical Center. It treats what Will calls the “invisible wounds of war”: posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other types of military-related trauma. “If someone has lost a leg or an arm, you can see that,” he says. “But when you’re dealing with someone who’s got a traumatic brain injury, you don’t know what they’re going through.” Will encouraged us to spread the word about this amazing and needed program.February 14th Meeting
We heard from Will Beiersdorf, a veteran who founded Palatine-based Salute Inc. in 2003 to help out fellow veterans financially. Today he serves as executive director of the Road Home Program at psychiatry department at Rush University Medical Center. It treats what Will calls the “invisible wounds of war”: posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other types of military-related trauma. “If someone has lost a leg or an arm, you can see that,” he says. “But when you’re dealing with someone who’s got a traumatic brain injury, you don’t know what they’re going through.” Will encouraged us to spread the word about this amazing and needed program.