A new integrated mental health complex in Surrey aimed at helping veterans with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and rehab is getting some extra funding from a local Legion and charity....
Thanks to Maple Ridge Legion Branch 88, the future of mental health for veterans and first responders looks a little brighter....
The Royal Canadian Legion Maple Ridge Branch 88 together with the Earl Haig Society has gifted the Legion Veterans Village Research Foundation (LVVRF) a total of $600,000 to initiate the ongoing mental health, PTSD, technologies and...
Trevor Greene gives experience to Surrey-based Veterans Village project [Surrey Now-Leader]
Canadian war veteran Trevor Greene knows what it’s like to navigate treatment after a life-threatening injury, combined with post-traumatic stress, prompting his decision to take on an advising role at the Legion Veterans Village...
War veteran Trevor Greene gives experience to Surrey, B.C., Veterans Village project [CTV News]
Canadian war veteran Trevor Greene knows what it’s like to navigate treatment after a life-threatening injury, combined with post-traumatic stress, prompting his decision to take on an advising role at the Legion Veterans Village...
Canadian Veteran Helping People Flee the Taliban [CTV News]
It's been almost 3 months that the Taliban's sudden rise to power in Afghanistan, upended lives across that country. Thousands of people fled to safety. But many more are still waiting for a chance to escape....
War veteran Trevor Greene gives experience to Surrey, B.C., Veterans Village project [Vancouver Sun]
Canadian war veteran Trevor Greene knows what it’s like to navigate treatment after a life-threatening injury, combined with post-traumatic stress, prompting his decision to take on an advising role at the Legion Veterans Village...
War veteran Trevor Greene gives experience to Surrey, B.C., Veterans Village project [The Globe and Mail]
Canadian war veteran Trevor Greene knows what it’s like to navigate treatment after a life-threatening injury, combined with post-traumatic stress, prompting his decision to take on an advising role at the Legion Veterans Village...
‘He was not just my interpreter’: Veteran helped Afghan and his family resettle in Canada [Edmonton Journal]
Peddle has helped evacuate 12 of Mateen’s 13 family members who were stuck in Afghanistan. Mateen came to Canada in 2012 and became a master electrician. Peddle said Mateen now owns a successful commercial business in Oshawa, Ont.,...
Surrey condo development to include centre for treating veterans and first responders [The Province]
"We are getting closer every day to being able to serve our veteran community in our brand new facility. Hopefully by next November 2022, we'll be able to hold our first Remembrance Day ceremony at the new Legion Veterans Village." —...
As construction on Legion Veterans Village (LVV) continues to progress with Remembrance Day fast approaching, LVV has established its Centre of Clinical Excellence Leadership Team, comprised of renowned science and clinical experts to...
Construction work on the $312 million Legion Veterans Village in Surrey’s city centre is well underway, with the first of two phases expected to be completed by late next year....
Veterans and first responders in B.C. now have greater access to the Lokomat machine [Global News]
The Lokomat machine aims to improve the mobility of those with neurological and brain injuries. Now a fifth device in the province will be installed at the Legions Veterans Village next year. But as Kylie Stanton reports, the...
Lokomat Robot Gait Technology to Help Veterans & First Responders at the Legion Veterans Village [Fairchild TV]
The Lokomat is the world‘s leading robotic medical device that provides highly repetitive and the most physiological gait training – especially to severely impaired patients....
The Legion Foundation BC/Yukon Command, the charitable giving arm of the BC/Yukon Command of the Royal Canadian Legion, is partnering with Physiotherapy + Rehabilitation to bring the Lokomat® robotic gait training technology to the...
New Surrey mental health hub for veterans to include psychedelics research centre [Dailyhive]
The village has teamed up with Knowde Group, a research group that manages clinical trials into plant-based therapeutics and psychedelics such as cannabis, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy.)...
New Legion Veterans Village in Surrey will include centre to research medical psychedelics [Vancouver Sun]
The village has teamed up with Knowde Group, a research group that manages clinical trials into plant-based therapeutics and psychedelics such as cannabis, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA (ecstasy.)...
Legion Veterans Village Bringing Together Clinical Experts in Plant-Based Therapeutic Research
In a move to seek out alternative treatments for PTSD for veterans and first responders, the soon to become clinical research centre of Legion Veterans Village, is partnering with Knowde Group Inc. to bring together life science and...
Massive Legion-led housing project in Surrey, B.C., gains provincial backing for 91 affordable units
A unique housing project in Surrey, B.C., to support veterans and first responders got a boost from the provincial government Wednesday. The province is putting forward funds to support 91 affordable housing units for veterans with...
Province Approves 91 Affordable Housing Units for Surrey’s Legion Veterans Village Multi-Purpose Social Infrastructure Project
The Legion Veterans Village (LVV) project has reached yet another development milestone with the Province, through BC Housing, approving 91 affordable housing units for the mixed-use, multi-purpose project that will provide housing,...
Former soldier’s journey to walk again inspires new veterans village in Surrey [CBC Vancouver – Video]
Capt. Trevor Greene inspired the $312-million complex because he needed so many different services for help, backers decided it was time to put all of them in one spot....
Global News on Remembrance Day: Capt. Trevor Greene makes amazing progress (at 4:35 mark) [Global News]
Using advanced brain-scanning technology known as Neurocatch, Greene’s team of doctors could show his brain rewiring through neuroplasticity. It was so successful they decided to to thing to the next level, introducing a robotic...
After surviving attack in Afghanistan, B.C. man serves as inspiration for new centre for veterans [Global News]
Greene's progress is not only being observed by fellow veterans and the scientific community, but he's also being credited as the inspiration behind Legion Veterans Village being built in Surrey, a first-of-its-kind in Canada....
From near death to inspirational speaker, soldier’s recovery from axe attack continues to impress [CBC Vancouver – Article]
Greene's progress is not only being observed by fellow veterans and the scientific community, but he's also being credited as the inspiration behind Legion Veterans Village being built in Surrey, a first-of-its-kind in Canada....
New Surrey mental-health centre to use technology to treat PTSD for soldiers, first responders [Vancouver Sun]
Trevor Greene, who suffered a severe and debilitating brain injury from an axe attack on a Canadian Armed Forces’ peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan in 2006, continues to make “significant” improvement, thanks, he says, to a...
B.C. soldier shows resiliency after brain injury [CityNews 1130]
Known as the iron soldier, Captain Trevor Greene was attacked with an axe to the head while serving in Afghanistan. As Ashley Burr explains, his unique rehabilitation has inspired the creation of a massive new centre to support...
New neurotechnologies helping wounded Nanimo solider Capt. Trevor Greene [CTV Vancouver Island]
An experimental treatment is helping Canadian veteran Trevor Greene recover from a severe head wound that was suffered while on tour in Afghanistan in 2006 (CTV News - TV segment)...
‘It’s a hidden pathway to your brain’: Experimental treatment helping Canadian veteran rebuild brain [CTV Vancouver Island]
An experimental treatment is helping Canadian veteran Trevor Greene recover from a severe head wound that was suffered while on tour in Afghanistan in 2006 (CTV News - article)...
New scientific study shows brain injuries can be unbroken by innovative neuro-technologies
A recently published scientific study led by the Centre for Neurology Studies at HealthTech Connex reports the latest breakthroughs from Project Iron Soldier. Captain (retired) Trevor Greene, who was attacked with an axe to the head...
Serving their sacrifice - a first-of-its-kind residential and community development is on the rise in Surrey, British Columbia, on the property of the Royal Canadian Legion Whalley Legion Branch 229. The Legion Veterans Village aims to...
“Brains unbroken” Trevor Greene’s recovery journey
In recognition of PTSD Awareness Day and the many men and women of service who suffer from PTSD, we would like to acknowledge the tremendous courage of Captain Trevor Greene in his journey to recover from a devastating injury, and inspiring...
Legions, developers team up on mixed-use projects
As D-Day ceremonies captured attention June 6, veteran members at two of the 28 Royal Canadian Legion branches in Metro Vancouver were celebrating joint venture real estate deals that will improve facilities and provide a mix of...
When Tony Moore describes the groundbreaking for the Legion Veterans Village Project in Whalley as “monumental,” you can take that literally. Next month, construction will begin on the $312-million project, which will feature two...
The ground officially broke today on a first-of-a-kind facility in Canada that will provide post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mental health services to veterans of the Canadian Forces and first responders. The $312-million...
