The Veterans Courage Lifeline Initiative is an effort to help veterans, their families and therapy pets. The primary focus is helping veterans access information in an easy-to-understand format and in a timely manner. The initial information is related to life, health and financial well-being. Additional services will be included that will relate to gaming, careers and community service. The objective is to reach those veterans contemplating suicide, those who feel alone and any veteran who is spiraling downwards. We also provide support to veterans and their families for advancing their current status in life.
Our approach is straightforward. We are prototyping an AI policy-driven cloud information exchange platform, which utilizes AI for understanding the veteran's needs. The information is accessed via a mobile phone, tablet or browser with customized buttons for the various services. The goal is to offer three AI Teammates: Chat, Voice and Video. These will allow for a 24/7, local-language-supported communication lifelines.
Our initiative is highlighted on the following websites:
American Legion Post 419: https://www.alpost419ca.org/index.php?id=119
Veterans Courage: https://www.veteranscourage.org/aisolutionforptsd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEu25aN1HaQ
Our team comprises military veterans and Silicon Valley technology leaders. The initiative is being led by Sunny "Dos" Dosanjh, who is currently serving as the American Legion Chaplain (Area 2, SF Bay Area, Monterey Bay, District 13 Silicon Valley and Post 419 Santa Clara), captain of the Honor Guard (District 13 and Post 419), service and gaming officer, webmaster and newsletter editor (Post 419). In addition, Sunny is the San Francisco Bay Area chaplain for the Pathways Hospice We Honor Veterans National Program. Together with his Silicon Valley technology experience, which spans over 30 years, Sunny is assembling a nationwide partnership team of life, health and financial service experts.
Thus far, the initiative is utilizing https://www.dosanjhusa.com for the AI cloud platform, and partnerships for prototypes and testing have been established with https://www.premierwireless.com (T-Mobile partner) for the mobile endpoints. Additional Cloud incubation, PTSD therapy and cybersecurity partners are:
https://www.qusecure.com/ https://www.quintessencelabs.com/ https://nuviso.com/ https://www.cloudfuze.com/ https://q2e.com/ https://www.garblecloud.com/ and https://equinew.com/
Health-care, therapy and service-related partners are listed on the Veterans Courage website: https://www.veteranscourage.org/people-who-help
The Veterans Courage Lifeline initiative has been introduced to local leaders such as Congressman Ro Khanna, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor. They are setting up meetings with our teams to discuss next steps, funding and impact to veterans. We are also reaching out to various VA and American Legion colleagues who have shown an interest in assisting our efforts i.e., gaming with https://americanlegion.gg and communication with VA leaders.
The leaders at American Legion Area 2, District 13 and Post 419 have provided the go-ahead, and we are actively recruiting sponsors from our local Silicon Valley companies such as Nvidia, Apple, Google, Meta, Cisco and Adobe. The result will be the next iteration of an internet overlay supporting extended realities (XR, Virtual, Augmented and Mixed) with secured streaming video, voice and text functionality. The outcome will be veterans helping veterans live for another day, help in healing their trauma, and start them down a path to build a solid foundation toward a brighter future.
Thank you,
Sunny "Dos" Dosanjh
