(NewsNation) — Anthony Longo, founder of Warriors Choice Foundation, is helping connect veterans with service dogs and other holistic treatments.
The nonprofit tailors PTSD-treatment plans for each veteran it helps, offering resources in one-on-one counseling, occupational therapy, wellness retreats, sensory deprivation float tanks and more.
“We try to make it our mission to being able to provide essentially that choice back to the individual, being able to say, ‘Hey, look, what do I need for me to get better?’ and to take it from there and just kind of give them that sovereignty,” Longo told “Morning in America” on Memorial Day.
By taking veterans’ care from the one-size-fits-all mold, Longo said it’s possible to recognize “what’s accessible and available out there that isn’t really covered through insurance a lot of the times.”
Longo said his own service dog, Bourbon, is “the founder of this organization.”
“Through his lines and litter, we had 17 puppies that went out to veterans initially, and then as we started growing with the organization,” he said.