Nourishment for the mind, body, and spirit of veterans

June is National PTSD Awareness Month, and its goal is to raise awareness about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the healing tools available for individuals who have PTSD.

In Chicago, at the Eddie Beard Vet House, a model program is underway by the Deerfield-based United Relief Foundation to provide the health and wellness tools to help veterans nourish their minds, body, and spirit.

The Eddie Beard Vet House serves as a transitional housing environment model for the United Relief Foundation's Helping Heroes Heal horticultural-holistic program that offers veterans an engaging environment.

Central to the program is a vegetable garden offering stress relief and restoration surrounding that will create an opportunity to engage veterans with each other creating a sense of belonging and connectedness while providing a source of physical exercise and nutritious food. And the blending of horticultural benefits with holistic wellbeing techniques that veterans can use in their everyday lives.

United in the service of our veterans is Inner Voice Chicago providing the facilities and staff to engage the veterans residing at their Eddie Beard Vet House, and Lincolnwood Illinois, URB, inc. President Brian Urbanowski is supplying the funding to complete the program's development.

The United Relief Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) humanitarian aid organization dedicated to doing the good deeds that make a difference in the lives of the men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces.

For more information, please visit Horticultural Holistic Health and Wellness Program | United Relief Foundation