Green Recovery for Transitioning Veterans

Features: Green Recovery for Transitioning Veterans: We Can’t Do it Alone
Posted on March 13, 2008 by editor
Ask not what your Soldier can do for you; but what you can do for your Soldier.
By Paul Newell, Green Recovery

According to CBS News, 120 combat veterans (home for 8 months or less) committed suicide in 2005 every week. This is unacceptable! www.GreenRecovery.org was created because of the unacceptable conditions and futures that Soldiers face upon returning home from deployment.

In January of 2007, I saw a report on CNN that became the catalyst to start Green Recovery. The article was a story about a homeless Desert Storm Veteran that had been wounded on disability and living in his car. This story was so compelling to me that I launched www.greenrecovery.org - a non-profit, grass-roots organization that has been built specifically to assist Veterans decompressing from their Military tour responsibilities in a neutral environment. I am dedicating five years of my direct efforts to ensure that Green Recovery is a wholly effective support organization dedicated to and available to any Veteran in need of an effective healing process.

GreenRecovery.org gives returning soldiers the chance to use time in solitude to reunite with themselves first and then to sort through their personal traumas without any outside interference or added hardships returning soldiers typically face when returning from the war. These Soldiers deserve a chance to regain a foothold before reintegration.

GreenRecovery.org has designed a series of personalized tours that adjust to their instinctive values and actions by allowing them to reassess and readjust their personal resources now that they are home. The tours are designed to allow the Veteran a chance to disengage from the highly motivated, super-charged mind and body that has been generated by Military training and in-field experience and regain control of their lives again through their personal resources. This type of setting I offer at Green Recovery is very necessary to stop any further damage.

There are no out-of-pocket costs to returning Veterans. It is my honor and duty to give what I can to help veterans recover and reintegrate at their own pace. I feel a duty to help out where I can for their safe return and successful reintegration and I offer veterans an opportunity to do this protected by the remote and peaceful surroundings of British Columbia's wilderness where our locations are strictly classified. I encourage veterans to take this time for yourself before you decide what to do next. Stay as long as you need to. Come to Green Recovery and recover with others who have been where you were and can offer you the support and understanding needed to heal. All Veterans are welcome to inquire.
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