National Center
for healthy veterans

Returning Healthy Veterans to America

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Who We Are

The National Center for Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm is devoted to helping Veterans navigate the challenges of trauma and transition to achieve their full potential and contribute to every facet of American society.

At Valor Farm in Altavista Virginia, the National Center for Healthy Veterans empowers Veterans to overcome trauma and transition with strength. Millions have served through two decades of war, and many continue to carry the weight of those experiences. We guide them toward recovery, resilience, and renewed contribution to the nation.

Our Veterans have defended America’s freedom, yet many return carrying invisible wounds that challenge their health and purpose. At the National Center for Healthy Veterans, we provide a faith-based, holistic environment at Valor Farm where our Patriots—Veterans enrolled in our programs—live in community, engage in meaningful work, and advance through resilience, trauma recovery, and career preparation. Through this approach, we restore Veterans to health, strength, and purpose, returning them to America ready to lead, contribute, and thrive.

Why We Serve

Mission:
Return Healthy Veterans to America

Our Veterans pledged their lives for our freedom, security, and prosperity. Healthy Veterans are productive members of society, good employees, and positive role models, but not all of our Veterans are healthy.

To accomplish our tactical MISSION of “Returning Healthy Veterans to America,” NCHV engages Veterans through virtual interaction, case management of walk-ons and referrals, and a nine month residential program at Valor Farm. It integrates Christian best practices one Veteran at a time to 1) heal the mind, body, and spirit; 2) defeat isolation in community living, 3) provide dignified work on active farm, ranch, and construction projects; 4) deliver Christian trauma recovery and life skills programs, 5) enhance career preparation and skills training, and 6) ultimately prevent Veteran suicide.

Vision:
Reshape Veteran care
in America

Together we can do better for America’s Veterans. At the National Center for Healthy Veterans we are developing best practices to replicate across the country. Our veterans need America, and America needs healthy Veterans.

Our strategic VISION of “Reshaping Veteran Care in America” addresses challenges in the ranks of America’s Veterans nationwide. Decades of Veteran despair attest to inconsistent delivery of veteran services and insufficient capacity to address more than the surface issues that lead Veterans down the path to substance abuse, family dysfunction and self harm. The NCHV veterans rehabilitation and restoration program is a replicable “national private sector prototype” to achieve effective Veteran care across America, leveraging the efforts of many other public and private Veteran organizations.