MMA Champ and Vet to Discuss PTSD in Malibu

From a press release:

Director of Veterans Affairs for Serving California, Chad Robichaux will be appearing at Malibu Presbyterian Church located at 3324 Malibu Canyon Road, Malibu this Veterans Day weekend.

Chad is a former USMC Force Recon Veteran, best-selling author, Pro MMA Champion, and PTSD survivor.

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On Friday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m., Chad will be the keynote speaker at a casual dinner service at Malibu Presbyterian Church. He will be speaking on topics including surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the programs he has developed to help fellow struggling veterans overcome PTSD. Dinner will be provided by veteran owned and operated gourmet food truck, “The Vizzi Truck,” and will be free of charge with donations encouraged.

Chad served eight tours in the Afghanistan War on Terror. After four long years of deployments, his personal journey recovering from PTSD began. He shares his story of tragedy to triumph over the struggles so many of our nation’s Warriors face in returning home.

Chad is also a professional athlete with NBC’s World Series of Fighting and former MMA World Champion, who has used his platform to advocate for civilian support of America’s Warriors returning home. Together, he and his wife Kathy now dedicate their lives to share their story of victory through Christ and to mentor others.

Additionally, Chad developed Mighty Oaks Warrior Programs. His “Fight Club” is a six-day intensive program to help veterans and servicemen and women who are suffering from PTSD. Mighty Oaks Programs is the only faith-based PTSD program that the Marine Corps will send their men and women to on-orders.

Here Chad leads them through the “why” questions in their new life, and helps the veterans learn coping skills based on a foundation of a faith where Christ is the healer.

“We learn to live by design as leaders and will develop authentic character by discovering the truth within God’s word regarding discipline, brotherhood, purity, marriage, family, legacy, and faith,” states Robichaux. “Kathy and I are committed to serving on the front line with Warriors in an effort to intercede and end the climbing 23 per day veteran suicide rate and the current and tragic 90 percent divorce rate.”

Serving California is a faith-based 501(c)(3) organization that works with ‘boots on the ground’ partners to transform the lives of the often forgotten by providing self- improvement programs and caring communities for ex-offenders, victims of crime, and veterans. Serving California supports the Mighty Oaks Warrior Program’s purpose and efforts through resourcing, staffing, and funding the ministry. For more information, visit: www.servingcalifornia.org or www.facebook.com/ServingCalifornia.

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