Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm, WOW — What a September! While life is always busy around NCHV, this past month has been a real stretch. Gratefully, God has been present and real through the September gauntlet. Here’s what I mean: With two major events looming in
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Labor Day in early September has many similarities with the New Year transition point in January – new commitments and resolutions, rising optimism and expectations, new chapters of school and work, a shift from pre-season to regular season football 🙂, and a
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Wow! August already! For you, this may mean one more month of summer vacation, or anticipation of school starting, or another month of hot weather to ensure plants and animals stay healthy, or simply the emotional shift from Summer to Fall. For
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, First, may you have a powerful July 4th as you reflect on God’s goodness to America for 250 years, and as you contemplate the next 250 years of American history. Later in this newsletter, Diving Deeper entitled “A Hopeful America” has my thoughts on this national milestone and how we all
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, As with so many of you, we recently and reverently observed Memorial Day 2026. Several of our NCHV staff spoke at regional Memorial Day commemorations. It was a bittersweet day to mourn our Fallen Veterans in many ways, but also a day to honor that such
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, In our leadership training at NCHV, we emphasize the leader axiom “Honor the Fallen and Lead the Living.” This month of May is the time we as a Nation “Honor the Fallen,” particularly poignant because of the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of America. This “Founding” and the many times we
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm, My “Granny” was a special lady, packed with love, acceptance, and great wisdom. Her “maxims” remain with me today fifty years after her passing. One of these maxims was “Many Hands Make Light Work.” This is true in so many areas of life, especially regarding the work of our NCHV Volunteer
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm, Most of us in America have navigated a challenging winter. This was certainly true with the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm. Yet now we are experiencing the miracle of NEW LIFE—birds returning, buds blooming, green grass, and many other
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm, No doubt you have had to PERSEVERE through a weather challenged January. We certainly have – snow, ice, mud, frozen water lines – and yet, as the U.S. Postal Service would say,” the mail must go through.” So it is with NCHV at Valor Farm – despite the
Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans (NCHV) at Valor Farm, New Year Greetings! Looking Back — we are grateful (to you and to so many others in 2025) Looking Forward — we are expectant, that 2026 will be even “more abundant beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working within us.” (Ephesians 3:20) Looking Up — we are thankful to God for His favor each and
In the last stage of the program Patriots learn about post graduation support and how to maintain balance in their new environments. They also conduct an outbound assessment of the outcome of their PDP and receive assistance transitioning to new employment and living arrangements.
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A nationally renowned, faith-based trauma healing course designed to help veterans of all eras and their families recover from the spiritual and moral wounds of war.
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“The hospital fixed my body, but REBOOT fixed my soul. REBOOT sought out and resued the man I once was.”
Trauma Healing For Everyone
This one-of-a-kind course teaches you how to build bounce, weather the storm, and bounce back without getting stuck. This course is widely used in church and academic settings to build personal resilience.
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“We are often troubled, but not crushed; sometimes in doubt, but never in despair; there are many enemies, but we are never without a friend; and though badly hurt at times, we are not destroyed.”
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Resilience: Learning to Bounce
Intake, Inventory, and Assessment
The Patriot onboarding period includes familiarization with the farm, its work, living, and recreational areas, an individual assessment, and creating the holistic Personal Development Plan.
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Returning Healthy Veterans to America
