Our Team

Heather Ehle, founder, and chief executive officer of Project Sanctuary, was a Registered Nurse (RN) with more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry as a nurse and manager before founding Project Sanctuary in 2007.  

After reading that the rates of child abuse and neglect triple when a parent is deployed, Heather was moved to do something.

Being a civilian without direct ties to military families, she reached out to the community for support and education. Led by veterans and her board, she carefully listened to what the military families needed and then structured Project Sanctuary’s programs to meet those needs, pulling from her background as an RN to establish an evidence-based program that encompasses physical and emotional healing.