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Your generosity changes lives. Founded in 2015, VRF covers the full cost of every retreat through community donations, corporate sponsorship, and grants.
Every retreat is free for the veterans who attend.
Every dollar directly supports veteran retreat programs, healing resources, and community events. There are currently over 100 veterans on our waiting list—your gift helps us reach them. Each retreat serves 12 veterans in an intimate setting that fosters fellowship on their lifelong journey of recovery.
Tax-deductible · View our 501(c)(3) Determination Letter
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How your donation helps
Gifts a PTSD healing book through our “In Their Hands” program
Provides retreat supplies (journals, books, meditation pillows)
Provides meals for a veteran during a multi-day retreat experience
Funds transportation and transfers for a veteran to attend a retreat
Covers therapist and facilitator fees (massage therapists, outdoor therapists)
Sponsors one veteran’s full retreat including accommodations, meals and therapeutic treatments
Funds an entire retreat serving 12 veterans
Why your support matters
- Addiction & Recovery: Many veterans turn to substances to cope with the weight of PTSD. Our retreats offer a path to recovery built on understanding, accountability and hope.
- Fellowship & Peer Support: When veterans are surrounded by others in recovery, there is no divide. It’s all about relationships.
- Holistic Healing: Outdoor therapy, mindfulness and massage therapy help heal the whole person, mind, body and spirit, and complement conventional treatment.
- Restorative Well-Being: Participants leave feeling refreshed, affirmed, and equipped with tools for managing PTSD and balancing life.
Programs you help fund
Veterans Treatment Court Fellowship Retreat
Peer-support retreats for veterans and service members in Veterans Treatment Court programs, offered as part of the court’s therapeutic curriculum and held in different cities.
Beyond the Fight Retreat
Storytelling for veterans and transitioning service members: film, writing, podcast and more. April 2027 in Sedona, Arizona, at no cost to the veterans who attend.
Military Youth Golf Retreat
This program provides rehabilitative golf experiences and family inclusive golf opportunities to the youth of fallen service members and wounded war veterans in an effort to improve the quality of life for these children.
“In Their Hands” Book Gifting Program
Places The Bronze Scar: Understanding How PTSD Feels to Help Victims and Those Who Support Them, by our Retreat Chaplain, Col. (Ret.) Steven E. West, DMin, in the hands of veterans and their families.
Voices of our veterans
“Being out of the military you lose a lot of your support system. And as a Veteran you often feel you have to do things alone but my issues are common issues.”
“Everyone has different stories, things we are struggling through. Instead of just me against the world waiting for the axe to fall, I found partners to share the burden.”
Every gift supports a veteran’s healing journey.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for post-9/11 Veterans. Join a community of supporters helping VRF close the gap between veterans seeking help and the care they deserve.
