Below is a list of programs and services that assist veterans with maintaining and improving health and well-being. This is accomplished through safe, non-threatening recreational and outdoor activities & more.
Outdoor Programs
Outdoor Programs
PGA Hope
HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) is the flagship military program of PGA REACH, the charitable foundation of the PGA of America. PGA HOPE introduces golf to Veterans with disabilities to enhance their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being.
The program introduces the game of golf through a developmental 6-8 week curriculum, taught by PGA Professionals trained in adaptive golf and military cultural competency. All programs are funded by PGA REACH and supplemented by PGA Section Foundations, so the cost of programming is free to all Veterans.
Veterans Rally Point(Easter Seals)
For many of the brave men and women veterans/servicemembers who have served our country, the journey home is complicated and challenging. Whether our veterans/servicemembers are recovering from physical and/or psychological injuries or trying to navigate the civilian world to gain meaningful employment, Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut walks with veterans/servicemembers on their journey every step of the way. At Easterseals, no one is left behind! These services are free and local, serving our Connecticut Warriors.
The Outdoor RX Coalition - Connecticut
The Outdoor Rx Coalition is working to provide you with information, education, and training to help you plan, prepare, and enjoy more time outdoors.
We want to make the outdoors more accessible for all service members, veterans, and their families. Age, gender, experience, or the need for special accommodations shouldn’t limit your ability to enjoy the great outdoors.
We want you to feel confident, capable, and comfortable in nature.
The Outdoor RX Coalition - New York State
The Outdoor Rx Coalition is working to provide you with information, education, and training to help you plan, prepare, and enjoy more time outdoors.
We want to make the outdoors more accessible for all service members, veterans, and their families. Age, gender, experience, or the need for special accommodations shouldn’t limit your ability to enjoy the great outdoors.
We want you to feel confident, capable, and comfortable in nature.
Team Red White & Blue
Every year, more than 250,000 active duty service members transition out of the military, joining the 3.5 million post-9/11 veterans already living in communities nationwide. They face many challenges including isolation, weight gain, lack of purpose, and other health issues.
Team Red, White & Blue is the antidote to the isolation and health challenges they face. By forging America’s leading health and wellness community for veterans, service members, and their families, we strive to make tomorrow better. Together, we will find strength and success.
Our chapters and the Team RWB App deliver virtual and local, consistent, and inclusive opportunities for veterans and the community to connect through physical and social activity. Volunteers host regular fitness activities, social gatherings, and community service events, and facilitate building strong local connections with members and organizations within the community.
Veterans Base Camp - Connecticut
Veterans Base Camp is a grassroots 501(c) (3) charitable nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing resources needed by our Veterans, First Responders, Caregivers and those members of our community who are most vulnerable. Our team is a collaborative of: Veterans, First Responders, Caregivers, Social Workers, Clinicians, for profit and non-profit alliances, private citizens and government agencies working together to achieve our mission.
National Veterans Outdoors Resource Hub
Welcome to a National Veterans Outdoors Resource HUB
Find Adventure For Veterans Across The USA.
This is a 100% free awareness platform. Free to charities and free to veterans who are finding their next adventure. Double Click on any activity tile above to be taken to a list of unique nonprofits niche-specific.
Veteran Kayaking
Free kayaking and picnic lunch for veterans with PTSD, physical disabilities and their supporters.
We will be starting our kayaking program again this season. We meet on Thursdays behind Rovers Restaurant which is situated on Lake Beseck in Middlefield Ct..
- 10:00 - 12:00 - Kayaking
- 12:00 - Lunch Begins
Kayaks, life vests, paddles provided:
Hosted by Middletown Elks Lodge 771
For More Info: call (860) 346-9771
Hope for the Warriors
The VAST Program is funded in part by a recent grant from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. You can help honor the service and sacrifice of our Veterans participating in the VAST program by making a donation today.
VETERANS ADAPTIVE SPORTS & TRAINING
The goal of our VAST program is to promote lifelong health and well-being of veterans with disabilities through regular participation in a VAST array of physical activities and sports. Any and all veterans are encouraged to volunteer and enjoy some outdoor activities and a sense of camaraderie with fellow veterans.
Combat Impact Outdoors
We are a 501 (C) (3) non-profit organization that was formed by a father and son, who are both military veterans and avid outdoorsmen. Combat Impact Outdoors is dedicated to helping our combat veteran community enjoy the great outdoors and improve their mental health and well-being by providing and hosting cost free hunting and fishing trips. If you are a military combat veteran looking for some cost-free outdoor fun, or in need of guidance and resources for filing VA benefits and compensation claims, feel free to contact us through our application form. We also provide guidance and resources for no-cost mental health services.
Hope for the Warriors
MISSION
We believe those touched by military service can succeed at home by restoring their sense of self, family, and hope. Nationally, Hope For The Warriors provides comprehensive support programs for service members, veterans, and military families that are focused on transition, health and wellness, peer engagement, and connections to community resources.
CORE VALUES
Hope For The Warriors understands the challenges, pride, and joy of being a military family. For today, tomorrow, and years to come, we will strive to meet the changing needs of service members and their families.
ETHOS
Hope For The Warriors is a family, united by our shared conviction of honor and sacrifice.
Higher Ground
What makes Higher Ground unique?
We use recreation, therapy, and continuing support to give people of all abilities a better life. Together we bridge the gap between disability and belonging.
Qualifying veterans from any era show symptoms of TBI, PTSD, MST, and/or Polytrauma
What type of activities?
Alpine Skiing, Nordic Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowshoeing, Sled Hockey, Hiking, Stand Up Paddle boarding, Dance, Kayaking, Equine Therapy, Rock Climbing, Yoga, Biking, The Arts, Fly Fishing, White Water Rafting, Swimming, Tennis, Soccer, Archery, Martial Arts, MORE...
Huts for Vets
Huts for Vets is designed to promote an enlarged sense of self through an intensified belonging to the natural world. This larger belonging can provide security, identity and psychological strength, all derived from the realization that we are part of something bigger, older and more complex than anything we know. There is nothing like a starry night sky to enhance this awareness.
With three full days in the mountains the effects of wilderness are, on their own, therapeutic. The static of the outside world becomes muted and the senses grow more acute. A calming remove from the tumult of the world is quickly achieved as there is no cell or internet reception. Focus on the ideas explored in the seminar becomes more pronounced while immersion in nature is unfiltered.
US VETERANS Motorcycle Club - CONNECTICUT
We are a veterans motorcycle club located in Windham County in Connecticut, We have multiple chapters throughout New England and New York, We are a family friendly MC who participate in veteran related events and fundraisers. Of course we love to ride and build our brotherhood as much as possible. No one understands a veteran like another veteran.
Military Outdoors (Sierra Club)
Military Outdoors (SCMO) is at the forefront of a national movement to ensure every veteran in America has an opportunity to get outdoors when they return home after service.
Military Outdoors trips are led by former service members with outdoor leadership training.
About Our Program
The goal of Military Outdoors is to improve the lives of veterans and their families through connections with the outdoors and inspire members of the military and veteran community to become outspoken champions for environmental conservation and justice.
Camp Southern Ground - Veteran Programs
Our mission is to provide extraordinary experiences for individuals to recognize and magnify the unique gifts within themselves and others to profoundly impact the world.
Growing More Good
In 2011, with the belief that his musical talent was given for the purpose of putting more good into the world, GRAMMY award-winning artist Zac Brown purchased 400 acres of farmland in Fayetteville, Georgia and built a world-class facility dedicated to serving youth and veterans.
Our programs are founded on Zac’s own experiences and beliefs. Growing up as a camper and then counselor, Zac has seen first-hand that summer camp has the power to transform a child’s life. Also a staunch supporter of America’s active-duty and veteran servicemembers, Zac believes it is our obligation to honor and care for the men and women who have protected our freedom and kept this country safe.
Outward Bound for Veterans
Outward Bound for Veterans helps returning service members and recent veterans readjust to life at home through powerful wilderness courses that draw on the healing benefit of teamwork and challenge through use of the natural world. Servicemen and veterans take part in wilderness expeditions that are physically, mentally and emotionally challenging in order to build the self-confidence, pride, trust and communication skills necessary to successfully return to their families, employers and communities following wartime service. These expeditions purposefully scaffold wartime experiences (carrying heavy packs, sore shoulders, rubbery legs, sleeping out, strange noises, sweat, dirt, frustration and anger) with authentic achievements to create positive emotional and mental outcomes.
Team River Runner
Team River Runner’s Mission To provide all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community purpose, and new challenges through adventure and adaptive paddle sports! Lifestyle TRR programs are lifestyle based programs. Regular paddling opportunities in a variety of paddling options and paddle craft.
ivers of Recovery provides wounded veterans a unique rehabilitative treatment utilizing techniques that are both enjoyable and effective for our participants.
Rivers of Recovery specializes in the rehabilitation of combat veterans suffering with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), minor Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), stress, anxiety and depression.
Our program, which combines outdoor recreational activities with instruction on the self-treatment of symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety, empowers veterans to live a life that is no longer restricted by psychological or physical disabilities.
Race Cars for a Cause
Helping veterans and their families enjoy the thrill of racing and motorsports at race tracks across northeast .
Race Cars for a Cause is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping veterans and active military. Our goal is to provide the experience of a lifetime in a real race car at select race tracks and venues throughout New England. Please join us in this unique and exciting opportunity to help veterans and their loved ones enjoy a day at the track!
US Veterans Rowing and Kayaking
Welcome to one of the most exciting and unique
rowing and kayaking programs in the country
dedicated to our military veterans!
If you are seeking a new and exciting form of healthy physical activity,
which is both healing and therapeutic, this is the program for you!
We are striving for perfection but sometimes have to settle for excellence!
U.S. Veteran's Rowing & Kayaking Program is a non-profit, volunteer organization based in Connecticut and serves all military Veterans in the nation that suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and other health related issues.
Our healing and wellness programs are designed especially to help Veterans with addressing these and many other health problems.
Leap of Faith Adaptive Skiers
Mission and Vision
LOF's Mission
Our mission is to build lasting confidence and fulfillment through exposure and professional training in recreational and competitive water and snow skiing to both children, adults and veterans with disabilities.
LOF's Vision
Our objective is to improve the lives of our participants by providing them with safe, challenging and memorable adaptive recreation programs.
Wooden Boat Workshop
The Veterans Wooden Boat Workshop is an organization founded by Veterans located in New York’s Hudson Valley. We are dedicated to the well-being of Veterans and their families. Our mission is to bring much-needed programs into the area. This project is coordinated and led by Veteran volunteers and community leaders who donate their time and experience to help struggling Veterans reintegrate.
The Catskills are home to over 12,000 veterans and their family members. While veterans do have some access to programs that assist in homelessness, substance abuse, employment, and other basic needs, there is a serious gap regarding the veteran’s psychological wellbeing. This Workshop is a program that integrates cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and access to support professionals to help Veterans successfully reintegrate into society as well teaching a viable skill in woodworking and watercraft.
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If you are a Post 9/11 Veteran be sure to register with the Wounded Warrior Project . There is an amazing amount of assistance and support available.
Warrior Registration
If you are a veteran or active duty service member of
the U.S. armed forces and suffered a physical or mental injury, wound, or illness during your military service on or after September 11, 2001, you can register below. Once verified, you’ll have access to our programs in areas like mental health, financial wellness, physical health, and peer and community connection.
Family Support Member Registration
Warriors aren’t the only ones who face challenges after transitioning back to civilian life. Wounded Warrior Project understands the importance of a strong support system and we’re here to serve
those who support the transition and recovery
of their veteran family member.
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Dare To Dream Ranch offers alternative therapy programs for service members, veterans and their families.
12 Snagwood Rd , Foster, RI, United States, Rhode Island
- (401) 919-2059
- Dare2DreamRanchRI@gmail.com
- daretodreamranch.org
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