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
Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm, Our focus at the National Center for Healthy Veterans is generally on health and wellness, but we cannot avoid tough discussions periodically about the reality of military and veteran suicide and other related mental and behavioral health challenges. Collectively, we must reverse this tragic trend which impacts generations
Welcome Dear Friends of NCHV and Valor Farm, Welcome to the May edition of our Healthy Veterans Newsletter. After my short introduction, we’ll have some fun Plays of the Day, featuring another one of our hardworking staff in Meet the Team, Dive Deeper with a Memorial Day reflection, provide a few Media Highlights, and close with Prayer Points and highlight a few Upcoming
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, I write this from Pigeon Forge TN where I am speaking to a group of pastors about resilience, leadership, and self-care. One of the key principles is “In the world you will have tribulation.” So it is with all of us – none of us are immune
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, I confess a heavy heart as we are in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I know you join me in prayer for the many innocents impacted by this act of aggression. No doubt you are also inspired by the many acts
Welcome Dear Friends of the National Center for Healthy Veterans, Our last newsletter of 2021 looked back in gratitude at an amazing year – a year of inspiring teamwork and God’s favor on behalf of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America.” Now we peer forward into 2022 – a year which will possess equally amazing opportunities
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Welcome Dear Friends, In this special December edition of our NCHV Newsletter, you will see the recurring theme of GRATITUDE. I invite you to get carried away by this “attitude of gratitude” with us, particularly as we enter another Christmas season. In the Psalms, David expresses “My heart overflows with a good theme.” This well summarizes how
Welcome Dear NCHV Friends, On this Veterans Day 2021, 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 sink to such self-serving motivations —
Welcome Dear Friends, I write this newsletter introduction in the midst of a national crisis and tragedy called Afghanistan. While avoiding the temptation to provide extensive commentary, I will say the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle has placed thousand of Americans and our Allies in peril and has thrown millions of U.S. Veterans and many of their
Welcome Welcome to our first edition of the “HEALTHY VETERAN HIGHLIGHTS“! Have you ever thought, “Where would we be without our Veterans?” What if on June 6, 1944 (the Normandy invasion to free Europe in WWII), those brave Americans had said “It’s too wet, too windy – we’ll go tomorrow.” Gratefully we don’t have to
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
