Returning Veterans Project is a grassroots, independent non-profit serving Oregon and SW Washington. For the past 11 years, Returning Veterans Project has been a conduit for post 9/11 veterans and their families seeking free and confidential mental health counseling and somatic services. Somatic services include chiropractic, massage, acupuncture and naturopathy. In 2015, the Returning Veterans Project had 180 providers and helped deliver more than 4500 hours of free and confidential services. Additionally, RVP has partnered with the Portland Art Museum in art therapy, sponsored women writing groups for military sexual trauma, and dramatic performances from veteran’s own stories.
Returning Veterans Project also provides free training for their volunteer providers through out the year on subjects such as PTSD, TBI, MST and orthobionomy.
Returning Veterans Projects believes it is our collective responsibility to offer support and healing for both the short and long term repercussions of war zone service on veterans and their families.
Learn more at www.returningveterans.org
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Michelle Matthews came from a military family. She is a daughter of a Vietnam veteran. She often jokes that going to the Air Force is not a big deal for her after being raised by him. She joined right after high school and was s service specialist medic. She mostly served in Europe during desert storm. She later on got a business degree an. She had worked with the VA and DOD research projects and finally have a good fortune to be able to work at the Returning Veterans Project.
Belle Landau have been a manager of a nonprofit since 1986. She’d been working in the field of social services raising funds for families and children survivors of violence. She’s the executive director of Returning Veterans Project since 2009. Her youngest son is an OIF veteran.
Returning Veterans Project is a grassroots, independent non-profit serving Oregon and SW Washington. For the past 11 years, Returning Veterans Project has been a conduit for post 9/11 veterans and their families seeking free and confidential mental health counseling and somatic services. Somatic services include chiropractic, massage, acupuncture and naturopathy. In 2015, the Returning Veterans Project had 180 providers and helped deliver more than 4500 hours of free and confidential services. Additionally, RVP has partnered with the Portland Art Museum in art therapy, sponsored women writing groups for military sexual trauma, and dramatic performances from veteran’s own stories.
Returning Veterans Project also provides free training for their volunteer providers throughout the year on subjects such as PTSD, TBI, MST and orthobionomy.
Returning Veterans Projects believes it is our collective responsibility to offer support and healing for both the short and long term repercussions of war zone service on veterans and their families.
Their healthcare network includes 185 licensed insured practitioners located throughout the Portland Tri-County area and Mid-Willamette Valley, Central and Southern Oregon, Baker City, Astoria, Tillamook and Clark County Washington. In addition to their core services, they also offer a, Returning Veterans Art Therapy Project held weekly at the Portland Art Museum, sponsor two women veterans writing groups (Portland and Eugene), and through a new partnership with the University of Oregon, one of our licensed massage therapists is on campus every week providing stress relief treatments for 12 veterans a term.