Warriors Journey Home Ministry Inc

“The mision of Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. is to provide spiritual healing and soul repair for veterans, their families and the community. Description of Services: Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. provides opportunities for healing the invisible wounds (Moral Injury) of war and military service. These invisible wounds are now being recognized as a Moral Injury and often are in kinship with the diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Substantial research indicates the need for the community to be available for the healing of the Moral Injury/Wound. (1) Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. provides local gatherings of veterans, family members, and friends in a program titled, Rally Point Circles (RPC). RPCs meet as scheduled by the local group at several locations throughout Northeast Ohio. The meetings are supplemented with a monthly one day retreat for deeper healing work utilizing earth medicine practices. The monthly one-day retreat, Prayer and Purification Sweat Lodge, has expanded to include a ceremony remembering and honoring and the war dead. Women veterans hold their own Prayer and Purification Sweat Lodge quarterly. WJH has worked collaboratively with veterans sober houses in Summit county offering opportunities for participation in RPCs, the Prayer and Purificatin Sweat Lodge. RPCs are sessions are lead by a trained facilitator. (2) Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. provides community based educational programs for first responders, counselors, therapists, clergy, educators, school guidance counselors. These education/informational sessions are titled Skin in The Game and serve to raise awareness and provide practical guidelines to bring veterans home and serve their families during re-entry. (3) Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. provides the Witness Tree program which takes place annually from November 1 through November 11, Veterans Day, as a public service to raise awareness of the daily suicides by veterans of the United States Military. This brief ceremony each day, at a specific location in serveral communities of the great Akron, Ohio area; Florence, KY; Hartford, WI; involves the placing of twenty-two dog-tags on a tree. At the conclusion of The Witness Tree 11 day program there are 242 dog-tags as a tangible reminder that we need to be more aware of the veterans spiritual needs as they re-enter society. We provide practical guidelines for business owners, educators, political leaders, and public servants. The average number of annual attendees at the various Healing Circles of Trust is 720. The number attending the eleven day program of the Witness Tree is 1,500. Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. provides volunteer community support through the Summit County Ohio Valor Court and the Stark County Ohio Honor Court, both courts are veterans courts. Warriors Journey Home Ministry, Inc. aslo has a presence in southern Wisconsin where our representative is consulting with the county Veterans Service Commission, and local service agencies. Our providers and facilitators are vetted and take part in our healing model training program supplemented with continuing educational programs and support. Warriors Journey Home has consulted with the Summit County of Ohio Juvenile Court on issues of transgenerational family issues initiated by multiple deployments of family members, parents. Warriors Journey Home continued its availability to Summit County Juvenile Court. WJH is providing consultation with local churches in Columbus, Ohio, and Florence, Kentucky. (Florence, KY includes the citys veterans commsiion.)”

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