
Carpentry and Camaraderie: Healing And Community To Veterans
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Patriots Landing combines peer-to-peer veteran support with carpentry.
Faith-based veterans complex, Patriots Landing, offers peer-to-peer veteran support while teaching carpentry skills.
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Carpentry and Camaraderie: Healing And Community To Veterans
Clip: Season 1 Episode 188 | 3m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Faith-based veterans complex, Patriots Landing, offers peer-to-peer veteran support while teaching carpentry skills.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIn other news, the power of peer to peer veteran support is on full display in northern Kentucky.
Patriots landing is more than a community center.
It's a safe place where veterans can connect with others who understand their experiences past and present.
And they just might leave with a few new carpentry skills.
We are a rural faith based veterans complex.
Our mission has been over the last 12 years to enhance the lives of veterans and their families.
We help them heal through creating products with a purpose, and it works.
And we are standing now today in Patriots Landing, which is our brand new Forever home here in Williamstown, Kentucky.
Patriots Landing's important to veterans in the community that have come back as a place to join together, have some camaraderie and a positive environment.
A lot of what we see with veterans coming back either from deployments or war or just regular military service is when they come home, they lose the camaraderie and the kinship.
The Brotherhood just doesn't exist as much as it was when they were active duty.
So what this is, is a place to rekindle that.
Just like the men, the women have stories they need to tell.
Everybody has a different story based on where they come from.
And being that female is very much a different story then.
So this place adds to that.
Patriots landing adds to that because it it gives us a place to tell our story.
Whatever we can make here.
The limit is just our imagination.
You know, we have a few core products that we stick with.
The flags, the crosses, the address signs, but primarily the flag cases.
The flag cases are really important to us because we don't want to see a veteran flag go in a flag.
Cases made in a foreign country like this is ours.
We want to make sure that we maintain this built by Americans veterans in the United States.
Each piece is unique, and we call them perfectly imperfect because there's really only one item that we make that we expect perfection where as close to as possible.
Our signature item is our veteran crafted burial flag cases.
We started trying to figure out how to build a burial flag case, and we did.
And that's that's where I would say we shifted from first gear, kind of just making cornhole boards and shipping them off all over the world, doing that to, Wow, I think we can create something special.
I remember thinking that what I hope as the founder and board chair for Patriots Landing is that we've we get more and more and more veterans involved and engaged.
We've always said, you know, if we help just save one life.
Right.
There's one life that is worth it.
A Bill Aimed At Postpartum Depression
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 1m 41s | Full Senate will hear a bill aimed at postpartum depression education and treatment (1m 41s)
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 2m 33s | Legislators are looking to make sure every school in Kentucky has an AED. (2m 33s)
JCPS Addresses Teacher Shortage
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 4m 6s | How Jefferson County Public Schools are addressing the teacher shortage. (4m 6s)
Report Calls For Restoring Voting Rights To Felons
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 2m 28s | New report from League of Women Voters of KY calls for restoring voting rights to felons (2m 28s)
Report on Housing Damage From Flood
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 2m 56s | Homeless & Housing Coalition of Kentucky talks housing damage from Eastern Kentucky flood. (2m 56s)
Teacher Shortage Addressed By House Bill 319
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 5m 9s | How House Bill 319 would address Kentucky's teacher shortage. (5m 9s)
Times Are Changing: Proposal For JCPS Schools
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Clip: S1 Ep188 | 2m 38s | Start Smart proposal would change Jefferson County Public Schools start times (2m 38s)
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