Dale has 50 years of construction experience including contract administration, program management, project management, construction management, and quality control and quality assurance. His experience includes heavy highway and bridge construction; construction materials; road, bridge, and pavement design, site-civil and building construction. A large part of his experience includes a 35-year career with VDOT, and 28 …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Isn’t it fun to see Spring start to kick into gear? The four new calves at Valor Farm and the numerous piggies cause us to marvel at new life and the growth which quickly turns them into mature animals. Similarly, the arrival …
Brad Allen and Tera Keating-Allen from Libertyville,IL. Brad is a West Point graduate and Airborne Ranger. Tera is a retired Navy Nurse Corps officer. She is currently a Licensed Resident in Counseling at Light Counseling in Lynchburg. Brad and Tera enjoy spending time with friends and family. They love the outdoors, kayaking, hiking, and camping. Tera is …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, While many of us are eagerly awaiting Spring, we are still immersed in the rains, snows, and cold of Winter at Valor Farm and likely where you live as well. As we wait for God’s Creation to bust out in Easter fashion, …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm, Prayerfully you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year season, and may your transition to 2023 be blessed in every way. In fact, our theme this month is on TRANSITION – we see it in many ways – 2022 to 2023, Fall to Winter, …
Welcome Dear Friends, In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.” This well summarizes how we feel at the National Center for Healthy Veterans. The theme is driven by GRATITUDE for the overflow of blessings to Valor Farm as so many around America have helped us help Veterans over this past …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, On this Veterans Day 2022, we must ask ourselves a very important question: “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if they had concluded it was too windy, too wet, and too uncomfortable to venture onto the beaches of Normandy in June 1944? Gratefully, they didn’t …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, Our theme for this month’s newsletter is simply TRANSITION. As we enter the Fall season we are reminded of the transition from Summer as we observe the golden tint appearing on some of the Valor Farm hardwoods. As well, TRANSITION is key to our mission – helping Veterans transition from wounded …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, Our theme for this month’s newsletter is simply “Caring for People.” For NCHV this primarily means caring for veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and their families. While the amazing progress with tiny home construction, community center opening, a new Healthy Veteran market taking shape, and …
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, I trust each of you had a meaningful 4th of July. America’s Independence Day is a fitting reminder that FREEDOM is not free, and we are the land of the FREE because of our brave veterans. Hence, our theme for the month of July is simply …
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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NCHV partners with the best in industry and the best educators to help veterans develop the skills they need to transition successfully to civilian employment at ZERO cost to them.
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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
The Patriot onboarding period includes familiarization with the farm, its work, living, and recreational areas, an individual assessment, and the creation of the holistic Personal Development Plan.
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Returning Healthy Veterans to America
