iCARD Systems Celebrates Veterans Day and Its Relationship With Vets Prevail

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- iCARD Systems is celebrating Veterans Day by renewing its commitment to support an online veterans program that provides training for P.T.S.D., Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. iCARD began supporting the program, Vets Prevail, in 2009.

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iCARD supplies Vets Prevail with $25 and $50 gift cards and online gift cards that the organization offers to service men and women as an incentive to complete the several weeks of online training that their program provides. "We're not claiming to be a treatment for P.T.S.D.," said Michael Amiet, director of strategy and business development for Prevail Health Solutions. "We're a first step to care to help the walking wounded from slipping into a full-blown, clinical disorder."

Amiet continued, "We weren't certain what kind of incentive would work best. We like the iCARD Gift Card because it can be delivered online and relatively anonymously. And the recipient can redeem it for whatever gift card they desire from about 180 different choices."

The Vets Prevail free online program offers online, narrated lessons on managing post-deployment combat stress and symptoms of depression. Roger Sweis, president of Prevail Health Solutions, co-founded Vets Prevail with Richard Gengler, a former Navy fighter pilot who flew in Afghanistan and Iraq, while the two were graduate business students at the University of Chicago.

Vets Prevail is operated by Prevail Health Solutions, a Veteran-owned and -operated health care technology company that provides award-winning, Web-based behavioral health and wellness programs to the US federal government. Prevail was founded to help address deployment-related mental health issues in the Veteran and military populations. With the support of the National Science Foundation, we developed a novel technology platform and content rooted in evidence-based practices to meet some of the most pressing health promotion needs of the US Department of Defense and US Department of Veterans Affairs.

About iCARD Systems

Founded in 1998, iCARD is a pioneer in the development of network-branded prepaid cards and was one of the first to offer Visa® Gift Cards online. Today, iCARD is a leading provider of prepaid cards, reloadable cards, bulk merchant gift cards, digital gift cards, and a Super Gift Card, which is both emailable and printable, for either instant or scheduled delivery gift cards, for corporate incentives, promotions and rebates. iCARD is an Independent Sales Organization for the Bancorp Bank and is a Hallmark Cards licensee. Its channel partners include American Greetings and AOL. iCARD has serviced more than 1,500 corporate clients and more than one million cardholders.

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