Causes: Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Suicide Prevention

Mission: The Objective Zero Foundation combats the public health crisis of veteran and military suicides by enhancing social connectedness and access to resources. We accomplish this by using technology to connect veterans, service-members, their families, and military caregivers to confidential peer-support through voice, video, and text. Additionally, we provide access to health and wellness tools, guided meditation, yoga and fitness content, and suicide prevention training.

Results: - over 750 peer support Ambassadors trained- 3,000+ veterans and service-members connected to health and wellness resources- 800+ hours of voice and video connections made- 6,000+ unique text conversations facilitated on the OZ platform

Target demographics: combat the public health crisis of suicide in the veteran and military community

Direct beneficiaries per year: train over 750 peer support Ambassadors, connected 3,000 veterans to health and wellness resources, and logged over 800 hours of voice and video and 6,000+ confidential text messages between at-risk users and peer support Ambassadors

Geographic areas served: all 50 states and in 13 countries around the world

Programs: mobile app technology that improves social connectedness and access to resources, connecting at-risk users to trained peer supporters through voice, video, and text on a confidential platform.