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Our Future is So Bright, We Gotta Wear Shades
Granby, Co, March 2012.
Project Sanctuary’s therapeutic retreat #22 started off pretty much like most. Twelve stressed out military families arrived Friday night, wide eyed and not sure what to expect for their six day adventure. For this particular retreat we had partnered with Sierra Club (they understand the benefit of outdoor recreation).
“Military children serve too, and we’ve found that connecting these children with the outdoors allows them to not only have fun, but gives them and their families a sense of resiliency,” said Stacy Bare, Sierra Club Mission Outdoors Military Families and Veterans Representative. “The outdoors heals.”
This March in Colorado is officially MUD season, so planned snow activities like tubing and Horse drawn sleds were nixed. YMCA of the Rockies and the PS staff quickly added new activities like Horse Back riding, Yee Haw! Our twelve families came
from all over the county to enjoy, not only horses, but wagon rides, hikes, snow mobiles, Healthy Marriage Classes and Financial Peace classes. We even had an acupuncturist show up for free evaluations and services. Cups and needles galore!! Country Music Singer, Barry Michaels, provided our families with an intimate private concert! Kids were singing “Don’t’ Uncountryfy Me” for the rest of the week!
Our families were a mix of active duty, Veterans, some with physical wounds, but most with invisible wounds. Two of the families were “dual”, meaning both mom and dad serve. And one very special family was divorced. With a deployment for dad looming in the next few days, this family came together for their three kids.
TBI stands for Traumatic Brain Injury. It is one of the”invisible wounds of war”. When a service man or woman is near an explosion or for whatever reason their brain gets rattled, the injuries can be lifelong. One of the common problems is sensitivity to light. Most of the “guys” wear dark glasses to keep from getting migraines. So picture a beautiful Colorado day, and we have a professional photographer, Steven Willis, lined up to get those family portraits, outdoors……..
One of the first families to show up is a young Veteran, Chris, his wife Allison and their two small girls. He is donning really dark sunglasses. As they are poised on the log, the wife whips out her sun glasses and puts them on. Hey? What is going on? She doesn’t have TBI and it certainly isn’t bright? Steven snaps away.
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Project Sanctuary is an innovative veteran non-profit organization that brings military families together following deployments. During a 6 day retreat in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado PROJECT SANCTUARY provides recreational activities as a form of diversion therapy to help military men and women and their families reconnect, heal from lengthy separations and begin to communicate again. Our program continues with follow on support for two years, assisting families with housing needs, job placement and veteran assistance. We host all veterans regardless of rank or branch of service (active, retired or veteran) and our families come from all over the US. We understand that the family serves too and its's our mission to help these families become whole. Our military families are a vital part of our communities...they sacrifice so much for us, they deserve our support and thanks!
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