Peer Vision Programs and Offerings

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Minot Vets for Vets is striving to expand opportunities for area former service members to find connection and support.  As part of this effort, Peer Vision applied for and was awarded Suicide Prevention Community Programming Funding through the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services.  This funding will allow Vets for Vets to establish a designated veteran gathering space, build its veteran peer support program, add educational opportunities, and enhance its resource and referral capabilities. 

Vets for Vets has been selected to receive a Blue Cross/Blue Shield Building Healthier Rural Communities (BUILD) Grant for 2025. This Grant will allow Vets for Vets to reach out into our surrounding rural communities to promote peer support availability for those veterans who live outside of the Minot area and who may not have ready access to peer communities or mental health resources. The aim of Vets for Vets peer support efforts, as a whole, is to make sure that all veterans in our area have communities of support built from those who have the shared experience of serving in the military. 

With this BUILD grant, Vets for Vets will establish connections in rural communities, provide peer support specialist and suicide prevention trainings for veterans and those who serve them, and offer ongoing support from experienced peer providers to help these smaller communities develop their own local resources.  

Vets for Vets is honored and grateful to receive this funding and understands the tremendous impact this can have for veterans in our area. We welcome inquiries from rural veterans and community organizations who may want to benefit from this project and develop veteran peer networks in their community. 

In July of 2024, Minot Vets for Vets was awarded funding from the Donald and Genevieve Roush Fund, through the Minot Area Community Foundation, to assist with the purchase of technology and equipment used for veteran peer support, education, and community outreach at the new Vets for Vets meeting center. This funding has allowed Vets for Vets not only to provide a welcoming, efficient meeting space for individuals who take part, but also to stretch beyond our walls to touch the lives of others who might not have immediate access to our center. Peer Vision and Vets for Vets are grateful for this funding that has already facilitated the set-up of our meeting space, allowed veterans to join peer support groups remotely if needed, enabled in-house peer support specialist training, provided outreach capabilities through website, social media, and electronic communication, and so much more. We are humbled and thankful for this community support, and will, in turn, use these resources to enhance available veteran support our community. 

As our project grows, check back here for information about developments.  You can also contact us with ideas or needs that might fit our program.