Warrior's Way Foundation's Program Selection Criteria for Warriors

The Program Committee will evaluate applications for the PTP and InOpP using three basic criteria: Applicant Eligibility, Needs Assessment, and Resource Availability. The Program Committee will at all times weigh the needs of eligible applicants against Foundation resources in an effort to provide the most services to the most people with the funds and facilities available.

All applications will be screened to ascertain the applicant is in compliance with the Program Eligibility Guidelines for the program to which he/she is applying.

Place and Time Program: Applications for the PTP will be evaluated using the following points of consideration in order of importance:

1. Nature of crisis situation (type of trauma, including elapsed time [recent or long duration], place, circumstances, evidence of need;

2. Family situation and request for help;

Divorce with its attendant emotional damage to children is a major problem in the warrior professions, with the consequences rippling outward to all aspects of our society. Special consideration will be given to warrior couples requesting place and time in order to provide as much opportunity as possible for family units to repair damage from the stresses of warrior life. The initial facilities are not suitable for children under 16.

3. Existence of physical wounds, diagnosis of PTSD or other evidence of mental/emotional crisis;

4. Amount of time requested, with longer periods given priority over shorter periods;

Significant recuperation does not occur in a weekend, or even a week, although often that is all the time available. Those requesting more time have a better chance of creating long term improvements in quality of life and health. For this reason, those wishing to stay longer than a few days or a week will be given additional consideration.

5. Expressed intent to take advantage of the healing modalities offered through StoneWind Institute.

One of Warrior's Way's stated goals is to help warriors have access to treatment and training in holistic modalities of self-healing particularly useful but rarely available to those in the warrior professions. Those who intend to avail themselves of the training opportunities offered through Warrior's Way Foundation are more likely to reap long term benefit from their time at Warrior's Way than those who do not; therefore, those applications will be given extra consideration.

Information and Opportunity Program: All eligible applicants for the InOpP will be given a permanent ID card and number. Those holding InOpP cards may choose to participate in training in either Division I (residency) or Division II (outreach) formats.

All requests for Division I classes or treatments scheduled in Chester, Arkansas will be granted in an on-going and timely manner.

Requests for Division II (Outreach) classes will be scheduled based on three criteria: (1) availability of StoneWind personnel for travel; (2) Foundation Resource Availability, (3) lead time provided for scheduling.

The Executive Board, the Advisory Board, and the Program Committee will work continually to balance requests for Warrior's Way programs against the available resources of money, personnel, and facilities. In this balancing act, three general rules will prevail:

1. Whenever demand for our services is under utilized and funds are available, people will be chosen on a first come first serve basis according to the Program Eligibility Guidelines for the Program sought.

2. When there are more applications than spaces, or more applications than funds to accommodate requests, resources will be allocated according to need and funds availability as determined by the Program Committee, the Executive Board, and relevant members of the Advisory Board.

3. At the discretion of the Executive Board in concert with the Program Committee, decisions may be made to direct more of the General Funds to one program than the other based on the distribution of applications, a shortfall or windfall in funding, and/or other options for funding a program such as Restricted Donations.