IIT Magazine‘s newest online exclusive article, “Chance for a Transformed Life,” by Marcia Faye, is available now:

In 2010, Helen Matteson was helping to take a count of her fellow Americans as a United States census taker. The following year, she was counting her blessings when her supervisor, a military veteran, told her about a new program to assist veterans, reservists, National Guard members, and their families in Lake and McHenry counties. Matteson, whose military connections include her ex-husband, two brothers, and three nephews who are entering the military this year, is receiving personal counseling and food pantry benefits thanks to a unique peer-to-peer project through the Lake County Health Department (LCHD) and Illinois Institute of Technology….

Read the rest of <a href=”https://www.iit.edu/magazine/online_exclusive/chance_for_a_transformed_life.shtml”>on the IIT Magazine site</a>.