Fiscal and Operational Impacts of Standardizing US Military Resiliency Programs to Minimize Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Lt Col James E. McDonald, ANG
2016, 57 pages
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In recent years the military has implemented nearly a dozen separate programs aimed at decreasing the rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide. After evaluating current military resiliency training programs, the author concludes that the services could benefit from a universal program content and delivery framework. Organizations are independently managed and operated, with little or no collaboration among them. Standardized training scope, content, and delivery of resiliency programs would ensure proven subject matter and provide more consistent evaluation and metrics. Program consolidation could lower administrative costs while increasing communication and oversight of best practices. Standardizing and consolidating resiliency programs would result in saving lives and millions of dollars in treatment, disability, and retraining costs.