The need for treatment centers for soldiers is rising across the United States but Corps V.I.P. is working to fill that need starting in Southern Utah.
According to the Department of Defense, more than 1.6 million soldiers have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001. Approximately 30 percent of those veterans will experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and nearly as many will become alcoholics or binge drinkers. A high percentage will experience divorce and some will take their own lives.
These challenges are the result of the tragedies the soldiers have faced in combat, and they can last a lifetime.
Dr. Sid Young understands these issues well and has joined forces with Corps V.I.P. as director and consulting psychologist. Young has served since 1986 as a U.S. Army Chaplain assisting soldiers and families with reintegration. From November of 2003 to September of 2005 while in Germany, he greeted, briefed and counseled with more than 600,000 soldiers, earning him the title, “The chaplain.”
