The RF Programs
Our nation's
Heroes
need your help
For well over the past decade,
over 20 veterans
committed suicide
each day.
Our active military, veterans, first responders, and their families are struggling to find programs that understand their culture and can help them find the path back to hope and healing. The Department of Defense and the VA acknowledge that they cannot solve the suicide and PTSD crisis alone. Our warriors and first-responders depend on non-profit organizations like the Remount Foundation in helping stem the tide of suicides. That help is centered around providing active duty, veterans, and their families with the tools needed to heal and reintegrate into society. The VA and military leaders across the Colorado Front Range agree that the Remount Foundation provides an invaluable suicide prevention, trauma recovery, and resilience-building program for our nation’s heroes.
Remount provides assistance to active military, veterans, first responders and their families coping with the invisible wounds of war and other life trauma.
More than
warriors, veterans, first responders and their families have
participated in the RF programs
Our
Horse Power for Heroes
Program
Equine-Assisted Learning
Our flagship program is equine-assisted learning (EAL), which is an intensive program designed to help participants take ownership of their healing, learn to reconnect with their families and provide them with the resilience tools to successfully reintegrate into society. Participants in our EAL program come from all branches of the military, as well as our communities’ first responders. Participants come from all walks of life and education: enlisted, officers, infantry, medical, special operations, truck drivers, lawyers, doctors, pilots, and engineers.
Horse Boy
The Horse Boy Method is another equine therapy technique the Remount Foundation uses to help military families (including those affected by autism) and warriors – particularly those affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI is the “signature wound” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, often caused by blast injuries caused by improvised explosive devices. The Horse Boy Method, designed by Rupert Isaacson, helps participants through a series of sensory movement exercises and interactions with the horse. Whether through one-on-one work with combat wounded warriors suffering from the side effects of TBI, or through half-day sessions for military families (especially those families with autistic children). We couch the Horse Boy family sessions as “play dates” for the children, and we continue to see tremendous positive results as the families find calm and confidence through interactions with the horses.
Heartmath®
The Remount Foundation uses the HeartMath technique to help participants reduce their stress and anxiety through research-based, technology-facilitated exercises. With the high prevalence of anxiety, stress, anger, and depression in those affected by PTS, we believe that offering HeartMath to our participants is a great way to help them take control of their healing and add a tool to their resilience toolbox. We provide our participants with HeartMath physiological monitors that, through a smartphone application, provide biofeedback to help participants control their breathing and regain inner balance. We know from over a decade of experience that the most effective and sustainable outcomes for warriors happens when they take control of their healing.
