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A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to provide therapeutic, curative, supportive and recreational activities to veterans, active military personnel, their spouses and children in a leisure environment.
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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!
Project Sanctuary is honored to be nominated in the top 20 in the nation, Thank you to you all for the support. And Thank You to our military families that we so proudly serve!!
End of the Year report
Dear Friends and Supporters of Project Sanctuary,
We are thankful for YOU!!!
This has been an interesting year for all of as we make the best of some very challenging financial times. The team at Project Sanctuary is thankful for all of your thoughtful and encouraging words and sentiments throughout the year. We’re especially grateful for donations you were able to send as we support 143 deserving military families.
Currently we have 800+ military families waiting patiently for our
services. When our veterans come home from deployments and war
they face a savage economy and depressing facts like:
**25% of our homeless are veterans,
**Veterans unemployment hit 21.1% last year
**18 Veterans commit suicide every day.
These statistics are not ok. We, as a community can do a better job of “supporting the troops”. Project Sanctuary believes that to do this, we need to heal the family.
Colorado Gives Day
Colorado Gives Day, December 6, 2011
24 Hours to Give Where You Live!
Support Project Sanctuary on the second annual Colorado Gives Day:
Click here =>>>>SUPPORT MILITARY FAMILIES
On December 6, 2011, Colorado citizens will come together again to raise money for nonprofits like ours.
Presented once again by Community First Foundation and FirstBank, Colorado Gives Day asks you to give to your favorite charities through the website GivingFirst.org, an online giving resource featuring all of the nonprofits participating in Colorado Gives Day. On this website we share our goals, accomplishments and much more to help you be informed.
- 100 percent of your donation will come to us when you give through GivingFirst.org.
- When you give online any time on December 6, the value of your donation will be increased by the FirstBank Incentive Fund.
- Help us win cash prizes! We have a chance to win $1,000 Bonus Bucks and $5,000 High Five cash prizes when you remember us on Colorado Gives Day.
Donate online at: Giving First/Project Sanctuary any time over the 24 hour period of December 6 to Give Where You Live!
Thank you for your support of Project Sanctuary!!
Dreams Come True and Retreats Will Be Built
On August 27, 2011, Project Sanctuary signed an agreement with YMCA of the Rockies to raise money collaboratively for a permanent Project Sanctuary facility at Snow Mountain Ranch. With similar missions focused on families, it is a natural fit!
“This is a huge step in the right direction that will enable us to provide even more support to our military families in the coming years,” said Heather Ehle, executive director of Project Sanctuary. “With a permanent retreat built specifically for our military families, we will be able to serve 250 families a year for the next 20 years! And that is a great start!”
With the agreement signed, the next step will be to arrange the funding for the construction of the permanent facility. For more information on how you can help the PS Retreat at Snow Mountain Ranch become a reality, contact info@projectsanctuary.us
Click " Read More" for news on Dr. Biden, Our trip to the White House and Pentagon, Retreat #18, SAM's Clubs, Colorado Giving Day, Gala and Trot for Troops (Whew, we've been busy!!)
Just Two Things - message from our founder
I have learned just two things since 9-11, the day that changed all of our lives forever.
1. Being a civilian at the time of the attacks, I had no understanding or appreciation of the sacrifices of the our military families. Now, I am eternally grateful to be able to call 100's of families my friends. I have a deep love and respect for their daily and selfless actions. "Thank you" seems so inadequate. And we are just now starting to begin to understand the support that they need now and will need in the future.
10 years of fighting the fight on foreign soil so that we may all sleep peacefully at night...... wow.
2. Americans are flipping awesome and DO actually care and want to help. Yesterday we received a nice check from Sam's Club Mountain Region and another from The Rotary Club of Parker. Whether it is car wash, a bake sale, a corporation that true cares....the message is clear.
People do care, and want to say thank you. From the whole town of Redstone, Newman's Own, Youth for Parker, The coolest mechanic in Castle Rock, YMCA of the Rockies, private donors and 100's more. I have been blessed to be surrounded by generous and sincere people that do care!
To all of our military families, past, present and future.....you really are not forgotten.
Heather Ehle
Exeutive Director-Founder
PEOPLE Magazine
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"Can Corporal Manning Save his Marriage?" People Magazine reporter, Sharon Cotliar, dives into a hard hitting, realistic look at Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and marriage after war. The Manning family's story begins in Virginia Beach, then follows Ian and Bernadette to a therapeutic retreat hosted by Project Sanctuary. There this young family, along with six other military families, engage in six days of diversion therapy, recreation, Healthy Marriage and Financial Peace classes all while enjoying the splendor and tranquility of YMCA's Snow Mountain Ranch. |
Our Mission:
Project Sanctuary provides therapeutic, curative, supportive and recreational activities to veterans, active military personnel, their spouses and children in a leisure environment. We are dedicated to providing a safe environment where individuals and their families who have been affected by their service in the military may spend both leisure and structured time with their families and fellow service members in an effort to diminish the wearisome impact of returning home after a considerable period away while serving the interests of the country.
OUR Vision: To build a permanent facility for military families so that they always have a place to reconnect and receive the support and services they deserve.
Project Sanctuary was founded with the belief that the whole family serves and the best way to support the men and women returning from war is to support the entire family, We offer six day therapeutic retreats in Colorado's Rocky Mountains. Our families enjoy year round recreation such as hiking, fishing, skiing, campfires and s'mores. Healthy Marriage and Financial Peaces classes provide necessary tools. We then follow these families for the next TWO years to continue to provide the support and services they need. These families serve together, they deserve the chance to heal together! Of our 125 families, 120 are together and we can report one arrest and ZERO suicides.
Every day 18 veterans commit suicide. Divorce is twice the national average and unemployment is triple the national average. We simply are not doing enough to “support the troops”.
Project Sanctuary receives NO government or state funding. We rely on foundations, organizations, donations and events. Each retreat is held as funding permits. Currently our waitlist is 700 families.
If you would like to help, Please click here: I WANT TO HELP
If you would like to apply, Please click here: FAMILY APPLICATION
If you would like to contact us, Please email us: INFO@PROJECTSANCTUARY.US
Summer 2011
Retreat #17, OH MY!! Project Sanctuary was proud to host 7 more families for our 17th retreat.
These amazing families were able to reconnect with each other and other families in similar circumstances. The pictures speak for themselves; horseback riding, fishing, full contact spoons (need a helmet for that!!) and who knew we had so many karaoke singers?? Let's just say this was the wildest of the retreats...... : )
GALA in Honor of Military Families
The Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the Office of Warrior and Family Support, COL David W. Sutherland, USA, will address the audience at Project Sanctuary's Annual Gala on August 27, 2011.
