Creative Forces helps turn Veterans pain into healing art; Veteran Community Project builds tiny homes for homeless Veterans

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[ABOVE] Veteran Community Project in Kansas City builds tiny homes for homeless Veterans

Creative Forces joins with VA to bring healing arts to Veterans

The National Endowment of the Arts has partnered with the Department of Defense, VA and state arts agencies to bring the restorative power of art to active duty patients and Veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as their families and caregivers.

VA employee volunteers time to play Taps at military funerals

Eugene Russell, an Army Veteran and VA photographer, has been sounding Taps for the past 38 years. He put those skills to use recently at Quantico National Cemetery.

Researchers harness data from Million Veteran Program to improve breast cancer screening

VA researchers hope to bring more clarity to the issue by using data from the Million Veteran Program. Several studies are now underway using MVP data, and one of them focuses on predicting breast cancer risk.

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