Surrey’s Legion Veterans Village is receiving $500,000 from Veterans Affairs Canada for a personalized therapeutics program aimed at helping veterans and their families deal with long-COVID-related brain fog and other conditions.
The grant comes from the federal government’s Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund. It’s the second major contribution to help the village in recent months.
On Feb. 27, the Legion BC/Yukon Command donated $1 million to the Legion Veterans Village Research Foundation to help fund more clinical programs and health-tech innovations for the village’s Centre of Clinical Excellence.
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The foundation – the non-profit research arm of Surrey’s Legion Veterans Village – also launched a campaign to raise $10 million toward funding more research and services aimed at supporting the health and wellness of veterans, first responders and their families.
The Village is located at the corner of City Parkway and 106 Avenue and is the first of its kind in Canada. Developed by the BC/Yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion, Whalley Legion Branch 229 and the Lark Group, it has a 20-storey building with a new 10,500 square-foot Whalley Legion Branch 229. There are 91 affordable housing units and 171 market housing units in the first phase of overall development.
The Centre of Clinical Excellence is operated by Veterans and First Responders Health.
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