Horses For Heroes-New Mexico Inc

Programs: Hands-on programs include cowboy up! , a program that provides horsemanship, wellness, and skill-set restructuring free to post-911 combat-wounded and ptsd-rated veterans, aiding in their post-traumatic healing resilience. The program is self-paced and objective/ outcome-based and is both a day program for regional veterans and a residential program for participating veterans from out of state and across the country. The program is self-sustaining with program graduates serving as a cadre with the all-volunteer instructor staff. Approximately 9,600 hours of sessions and veteran activities were provided. Wisdom for warriors is our hybrid life skills coaching program, originally exclusively for women veterans, now integrated with our cowboy up! Program as well as individual coaching sessions. Veteran participant families personal retreats - veterans who have participated in the cowboy up! Program were then allowed to participate in a personal family retreat, individually designed for their families' post deployment needs. Seven retreats were conducted in 2017, each a week long in duration. Native american students (40) participated in a ranch skills and horsemanship program conducted by our veteran cadre and participants. These students were the family of new mexico veterans and active reservists.

the organization's officers teach on veterans' issues, post-traumatic stress disorder, and spiritual dissonance. They are a resource for veterans both locally and nationwide. Seminars were provided for the nm national guard, kirtland air force base and a four-day training was provided to egcm (equine gestalt coaching method) practitioners on how to work with veterans and their trauma. The organization is endorsed by the new mexico department of veterans services, new mexico cattle growers association and their member ranches, working ranch cowboys association (wrca), wrangler national patriot program, american gold star mothers of america albuquerque chapter, the military order of world wars santa fe chapter, new mexico women's veterans association and the southwest native american veterans association. The national guard chaplain corps seminar/retreat on ptsd and other related issues was held for 14+ active national guard chaplain participants. The "train the trainers" four-day training training seminar was for 12 participants. We provided a welcome meal donated by one of our program partners. All other lunches were provided by the participants themselves.