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4025 Chestnut Street Contact: Mackenzie KochPhiladelphia, PA 19104 Phone: 215-382-6680 x3124www.councilforrelationships.org mkoch@councilforrealtionships.org

For Immediate Release

Operation Home and Healing

Helping Veterans and their Loved Ones

Philadelphia – July 30, 2008

– Council for Relationships, the nation’s oldest and largestrelationship counseling agency, has been awarded a grant for their new program, designed tohelp military veterans and their loved ones. Operation Home and Healing will focus on helpingIraq and Afghanistan War Veterans and their loved ones deal with the emotional distress of war,as well as the challenges of returning to civilian and family life. Council for Relationships will be providing specialized counseling and classes in their clinical offices throughout Philadelphiaand southern New Jersey starting September 2008.Operation Home and Healing therapists are specially trained by the program director who is aLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A host of topics will be addressed in this program, including: Post-traumatic Stress, Anger Management,Parenting Issues, Family Concerns, Communication, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction and SexTherapy.According to a recent study 1 in 5 Iraq veterans suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Theneed for mental health services is high, and CFR is honored to help our nation’s heroes and their families.Council for Relationships would like to expand their reach and services to this important population and is working to raise matching funds for the grant provided. For more informationon this exciting new program please visitwww.councilforrelationships.orgor www.operationhomeandhealing.org # # #Council for Relationships is a private, non-profit organization whose mission is to help peopleunderstand, respect and improve the quality of the important relationships in their lives by providing unsurpassed clinical care, education, research and training. Our therapists are oftencalled on as experts for, as well as being regular contributors to television, radio and print media.