NIAGARA network
A NETWORK OF HELP FOR OUR VETERANS Founded in April of 2014 by Kim Lengling, an Air Force Veteran and Tina Schiefelbein, a local business owner and wife of an Air Force Veteran; Embracing Our Veterans, a 501( c)( 3) Charitable Organization, is a referral program that provides the means to help veterans and their families receive services they may not otherwise qualify for through traditional means. Embracing Our Veterans has built a network of businesses and organizations covering Erie and Crawford Counties that are dedicated to helping our veterans and their families at little or no cost. Grass roots and God driven, Embracing Our Veterans Provides support, referral sources and honor to those who have given so much for our country.
HEALING THROUGH MUSIC It’ s important for non-veterans to understand that time does not necessarily heal the wounds of service. In fact, many veterans say that when they were younger, they were busy with work and raising the family, but now that the kids are gone and they are retired, many of the memories of their service return!
These veterans need to know that they are not alone … not only are there many organizations to help them address the issues that they face, but there are also many other men and women who have served that understand these issues from their own experience.
The Music for Veterans program was formed to offer veterans a creative means of addressing the transition from military to civilian life.“ It’ s a fact that playing a musical instrument improves healing and longterm happiness because it totally engages a person physically, mentally
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