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ing. So instead of just the chaplains hav- and enlisted grants and spouse grants, Guard will obviously credential them in ing to lift that work, now they’ve got we also have a program called work- captain’s and aviation licenses, but they others in the various Coast Guard areas force development that sprung organi- wanted to go beyond that, to be more that are also trained in suicide preven- cally from a conversation that one of our mission ready in their current job, and tion (and other helpful services). Al- directors had in Miami three and a half then to be more marketable once they though it’s in its pilot stage now, we have years ago, where Coast Guard mem- retire. So we set up classes, and we have strong indicators that we will continue. bers were telling him that they needed classes of captain’s licenses and a whole

So in addition to the physical morale and additional credentialing. So, the Coast lot of other solutions that we fund. keeping them mission ready with all the exercise equipment and outdoor pieces, we’re very proud that we’re also doing a lot more on the mental wellness side.

For anyone reading (or watching), how can the maritime industry help the CGF ful? ll its mission?

We have 26,000 donors, made up of corporate supporters and individual sup- porters. Our 80-member national board is as active as any board I’ve ever been part of, and they do a lot of this lifting.

Watch the video @ bit.ly/3q4J3bs

We have many of your maritime sup- porters and would welcome any oth- ers that want to get closer to this mis- sion. It’s about matching that passion of the people they work with every day to the needs of the Coast Guard mem- bers. We are about to set up our 2022 events schedule, and I’m happy to say we’ll have eight of the ‘Salute the Coast

Guard’ dinners as well as two golf tour- naments. They’re evenings of communi- ty where maritime members are together in one room with Coast Guard leader- ship, and we salute Cast Guard heroes from the stage. We have many maritime partners who want to help in speci? c ar- eas of support. One of them that comes to mind is education. Within the educa- tion bucket of dependent scholarships

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