Help Us Build the 911 System Veterans Actually Deserve

17.5-45 veterans die by suicide every single day in America.

That's not a statistic. That's a soldier, a sailor, an airman, a Marine — somebody's battle buddy, somebody's parent, somebody's child — dying in the dark, alone, because they couldn't find their way back.

Here's the part nobody talks about: 60% of them had zero contact with the VA in the two years before they died.

The system wasn't there. But we are.

My name is Jacob Sterling Silver. I'm a Civilian Tired Of Hearing My Veteran Buddies Talk About Loosing Friends They Served With and the founder of S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis Q.R.F. — Shut Up And Serve — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit built by veterans, for veterans, in Santa Clara County, California. We don't wait for someone to fall through the cracks. We catch them before they fall.

WHAT WE BUILT

We built Service Connected Care (SCC) — a real-time peer dispatch platform for veteran crisis intervention. When a veteran hits a wall at 2am, SCC connects them within minutes to a trained veteran peer who has been exactly where they are. Not a hotline. Not a recording. Not a wait time. A peer.

Our platform: AI-assisted crisis triage · Encrypted zero-storage communication · 36-device offline mesh network that works when cell towers go down · Blockchain audit trail · VA integration as a bridge, not a replacement.

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

$5,000 — Train 10 veteran peer responders

$10,000 — SCC platform infrastructure & security

$15,000 — Expand mesh network across Santa Clara County

$25,000 — Full beta launch with Moffett Field military partners

$50,000 — Northern California expansion (700K+ veterans)

$25 trains a peer for one session. $100 puts SCC in one more veteran's hands. $1,000 makes you a founding mission partner.

No veteran should die because they couldn't find the right person to call. We are those people. Help us answer.

S.U.A.S. Veteran Crisis Q.R.F. | EIN: 88-3249428 | 501(c)(3) tax-deductible | suasqrf.org