Sunday, October 30, 2011

Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV)

Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) makes arts and crafts kits for veterans.

HHV’s craft kits have done wonders to counteract the number one problem of every hospital – patient boredom, which manifests itself in endless hours of TV watching and daytime sleeping. By enabling patients to become involved in a satisfying, creative activity, the kits greatly improve patient morale, making them more responsive to treatment and easier to care for.







Through the kits they regain a new sense of accomplishment and self-worth, which in many cases brings about a remarkable change in their whole state of mind.
By introducing veteran patients to arts and crafts, the program has given many of them, particularly the disabled, a meaningful hobby that they can continue to pursue and derive pleasure from for years to come.


With over 300 different kits available, a patient is able to select one suited to his or her personal needs.
The kits help in keeping hands active and minds alert during days and sometimes even weeks of recuperation after surgery or rehabilitation. Arts and crafts kits along with other therapeutic products and services HHV provides and sponsors, come as a very welcome assurance to veteran patients that they have not been forgotten – that “someone out there really does care.”



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Due to the generosity of thousands of Americans nationwide, HHV continues to provide hospitalized veterans with tremendously therapeutic programs and services.
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Bay Pines VA Hospital Arts & Craft

 I would like to give a special thanks to the Bay Pines VA Hospital Arts & Crafts department. (HHV Outpatient Craft Clinic)
Located in Building 100 on the second floor.  The arts & crafts center offers many different things for vets to do.
They offer:
Drawing – Working  with and teaching vets how to draw.
Painting - Working  with and teaching vets how to paint art.
Wooden kits – Putting together many different wooden kits.
Clay Molds – They will pour clay into a mold, cook it and you paint it.
Leather Sowing Kits – You can make wallets, shoes and many other crafts.

This service is Free for vets, All you need to do is show you VA ID card. They offer many different arts and crafts.  It is a great service that brings happiness to me and my family. It offers family Bonding time for my family and I. 

The Craft Clinic Hours

Monday – Closed
Tuesday – 1pm – 4pm
Wednesday – 8am – 4pm
Thursday – 8am – 4pm
Friday – 8am – 3pm
Saturday & Sunday – Closed

Building 100, 2Nd floor.

Creative arts are vital ingredients to VA's recreation therapy programs across the nation, helping veterans recover from or cope with physical and emotional challenges.

Below are some of the things that My family and I have made, Here at the VA Arts and crafts center.

       Here, I made a wooden EGA, and 3 flags. Then I painted it and mounted it to my mailbox.

My son Adam

     My Beautiful Wife

  My Wife, Tatiana

The snowman when finished


Some of the Arts and Crafts we made. 

                                         We made these 3 clay pumpkins