🪖 Veteran Bridge – Hackathon Application

LLaMA-powered Veteran Wellness and Support Matcher

Veteran Bridge is an AI-driven system that intelligently connects veterans to personalized support groups, peer mentors, and community services based on individual wellness profiles. Using a token-based system, similarity matching, and emotion-aware messaging, this project ensures veterans receive relevant, timely, and compassionate support.

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🔧 Key Features

🧠 LLaMA-Powered Dynamic Grouping

• User Tokens Generator: Encodes veteran profiles into structured tokens.
• Group Tokens Generator: Represents the makeup and capacity of groups.
• Similarity & Compatibility Matching: Aligns veterans with compatible groups and peers based on shared experiences and support capabilities.

🤖 Emotion Detection & Support Agent Trigger

• Automatic Emotion Detection: Analyzes user input (text) for emotional cues (e.g. distress, frustration, loneliness).
• Agent Trigger System: Activates a live or AI support agent when emotional states such as crisis, suicidal ideation, or high anxiety are detected.
• Sentiment-Adaptive Messaging: Personalized messages adapt tone and content to the user's detected emotional state to provide reassurance or urgency.

🤝 Support Taker ⇄ Giver Matching

• Matches veterans seeking help with those who are equipped to offer support.
• Encourages safe, reciprocal relationships within groups.

📩 Personalized Veteran Group Recommendations

• Dynamic group and service suggestions.
• Outreach messages crafted based on profile tags and emotional context.

🔁 Dynamic Weights & Feedback Loop

• Adjusts priority tags using a machine learning feedback mechanism.

self.priority_weights = {
    'Suicidal risk': 10,
    'Crisis risk': 10,
    'Homeless': 9,
    'Substance use': 8,
    'PTSD': 7,
    'Unemployed': 7,
    'Recently transitioned': 6,
    'Depression': 6,
    'Anxiety': 5,
    'Disabled': 5,
    'Job training': 4,
    'Seeking therapy': 4
}