1. Navy Wounded Warrior Safe Harbor What is it?
Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor is the Navy and Coast Guard’s wounded warrior support program.
How can it help you and your family?
Navy Wounded Warrior – Safe Harbor provides service members and their families non-medical support following a serious illness or injury.
What is non-medical support?
Pay and personnel issues
Transition assistance
Child and youth care
Education and training benefits
Adaptive athletics
And much more
Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor is the Navy and Coast Guard’s wounded warrior support program. It is an essential resource for service members who may become seriously wounded, ill, or injured during their military careers.
The challenges that accompany illness or injury can be confusing, frustrating and exhausting. Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor is ready to help. The program allows Sailors and Coast Guardsmen to focus on their recovery, while its team of experts resolves non-medical problems and prepares them for transition back to active duty or civilian life.
What, specifically, can Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor do for service members and their families? Once enrolled in the program, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen are assigned a non-medical care management team that helps them identify and achieve their recovery goals. The team anticipates and addresses the service members’ day-to-day non-medical needs, providing assistance with:
- Pay and personnel issues - Invitational Travel Orders - Lodging and housing adaption - Child and youth care - Education and training benefits
Adaptive athletics
Transition assistance - And much more

2. - Retired Navy Captain Jean Scherrer
Navy Wounded Warrior
Safe Harbor
Who is enrolled?
Enrollment is open to all seriously wounded, ill
or injured service members, including:
OIF/OEF/OND casualties
Shipboard, training and liberty accidents
Serious illness (physical or mental)
How can you become enrolled?
To inquire about enrollment, call 855-NAVY WWP; or visit
Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor provides a lifetime of care.
Any wounded warrior is eligible for enrollment in Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor. The Navy defines a “wounded warrior” as a Sailor or Coast Guardsman that has a serious illness or injury requiring long-term care that may result in a Medical Evaluation Board or Physical Evaluation Board to determine fitness for duty.
Support is not limited to combat injuries; Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor also assists those battling serious illnesses or who are injured in accidents. Enrollment lasts a lifetime.
Sailors and Coast Guardsmen may self-refer to the program or be referred by family, command leadership or medical providers. For questions about enrollment eligibility, call Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor’s toll-free line, 855-NAVY WWP, or
The Navy and Coast Guard take care of their own. When wounded warriors are in need, Navy Wounded Warrior - Safe Harbor is ready to step in and provide the high-quality care service members and their families deserve.
“My non-medical care provider, more than anyone, has helped me beyond words. The things she has done for me have given me great peace of mind, which is the best medicine I could have received.”
- Retired Navy Captain Jean Scherrer