Grace After Fire provides support for and helps women veterans who are returning from active duty so that they can re-engage as mothers, wives and daughters in civilian life. The Woman’s Heart began operating in 2002, attracting hundreds of women in search of crisis support services. A significant data point was the frequency of women veterans disclosing their chronic use of alcohol and drugs as a means of coping or self-medicating their symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brai …