ReachOut America receives overwhelmingly positive reviews, highlighting its effectiveness in helping others and its dedicated staff. Many reviewers praise the organization's responsiveness, impact, and the supportive environment created by staff like Bill Chafin. ReachOut America is also lauded for facilitating community service and its positive impact on individuals and organizations.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the reviews:
Impact and Results:
Reviews consistently mention ReachOut America's "truly transformative results" and its ability to make a real difference in people's lives, particularly for those in need.
Responsiveness and Support:
The management team and staff, especially Bill Chafin, are frequently praised for their responsiveness, dedication, and the positive, supportive environment they create.
Community Service and Volunteer Opportunities:
ReachOut America is seen as a helpful organization that facilitates community service hours and encourages volunteering, with some reviewers highlighting the swiftness with which they receive documentation.
Positive Experiences and Learning:
Many reviewers find their experiences with ReachOut America valuable, noting the ability to learn and apply lessons to their own organizations' growth.
Making a Difference:
The organization's mission of making a positive impact on children in need is echoed in the reviews, with individuals expressing gratitude for the opportunities to give back and make a difference.
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He had been in denial of this disease of Multiple Sclerosis. After all, he thought, how could he -- a husband, a devoted father of two beautiful children, a man who had been healthy his whole life -- be struck with such a potentially-debilitating, life threatening disease.
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Reachout America’s Equine Therapy:
A Natural and Lasting “Fix” for
Special Needs Kids and Veterans
The horse. A powerful, gentle, strong, instinctive, intuitive, and beautiful creature capable of not only sensing a person’s energy and body language, but also developing an authentic and unique bond with a person. For nearly 20 years now, Reachout America has been helping kids with diverse challenges and special needs connect with camps across America – including equine camps. Today, Reachout America is filled with joy to announce that its services now include helping to provide equine-assisted therapy (EAT) opportunities for veterans, too!
Whether through:
• riding a horse,
• feeding it carrots and treats from the palm of one’s hand,
• detangling and combing the horse’s mane and tail,
• confidently holding up its leg while cleaning a hoof,
• shampooing and showering the horse,
• walking and leading the horse to the stable, pasture, or riding arena, or
• fearlessly mucking out a stall (with the horse still in it!),
There are countless ways for a Veteran to connect with this magnificent creature (and thus reconnect with themselves, their families, civilian life, and the world, in general).
Whether a veteran is battling post-traumatic stress, a physical challenge, depression, alcoholism or drug addiction, anxiety, or simply having a seemingly-impossible time moving forward in civilian life, being in the company of a horse can profoundly change, improve, and/or alleviate those struggles. Spending time with a horse farm and embracing all it has to offer is life changing. From –
• taking in the awesome scent of horses, hay, and barns,
• experiencing a horse look straight at you with compassion and trust,
• Rubbing a horse’s belly, and
• hugging its neck, to –
• sitting atop the 1500-pound creature makes it miraculously impossible to stay stuck in sadness and suffocated by stress.
Since horses react only to an individual’s behavior and emotions, they are unbiased creatures that don’t judge, discriminate, or care about a person’s physical appearance, rank, status, ethnicity, religious beliefs, financial status, or past mistakes. Quite similar to the unbreakable bond one makes with a beloved dog, this innate ability of a horse to build trust and connect with humans makes bonding with them authentic and life enhancing.
The benefits of equine therapy for Veterans are long-lasting and far-reaching, and include:
Feeling Calm Again
Though it may, at first, feel a bit intimidating being in such close proximity to such a huge, powerful creature, horses naturally inspire calmness. This is particularly important for Veterans since many of them often feel on edge, anxious, and unable or unwilling to continue to build genuine relationships with new friends or loved ones. It’s hard to have meaningful conversations and build connections with someone who isn’t calm, focused, and in the moment. Being in the company of a horse – even for a day – can help to change that. Witnessing such a wondrous animal display calmness, gentleness, and patience inspires calmness, gentleness, and patience in the horse’s caretaker as well.
Becoming Responsible Again
It’s hard to be self-absorbed or stuck inside your own needs, insecurities, and inner conflicts when there’s a huge animal in front of you that needs to be fed, showered, exercised, and groomed on a daily basis! For Veterans who make the commitment to spend regular time at horse farms -- riding and caring for the animals -- there’s no leeway available and no excuse accepted for not holding up to that commitment. Working with and caring for horses is a big responsibility. For its survival, the animal is dependent on its caretaker. By enabling Veterans to care for horses, Veterans are also naturally learning how to care for themselves again. While it’s a lot of work, a lot of lessons are learned along the way. Veterans acquire new life skills and, once again, become responsible for their own life choices, their personal and financial commitments, their health and wellness, and the healthy relationships they build with loved ones.
Being Hopeful Again
Spending time in the open air learning how to care for, tack up, and ride a horse helps to affirm how each day is a blessing and a gift to look forward to. Equine therapy helps Veterans regain confidence, let go of negative thoughts, and be hopeful about the future – all while developing and building an amazing bond with an amazing animal that can read a person’s energy and body language from the moment the person enters the stable.
Living in the Moment Again
It’s hard to keep clinging to and thinking about one’s anger, regrets, or past mistakes when there’s a 2000-pound horse whinnying in front of you because it’s happy to see you, wants to run in the outdoor field and roll in the dirt, or is hungry for some alfalfa, hay and apples. You can’t be stuck somewhere else in your thoughts when you’ve got the leg of a horse in your hands and are digging out the day’s dirt from its hoof. Being in the company of a horse enables you to be truly aware of and living in the moment. With their high energetic sensitivity to keep themselves safe, horses are acutely attuned to whether a person is fully present in mind, body, and spirit when near them. As a result, horses naturally respond more to humans in their company who are 100% present in the moment.
If you are a Veteran experiencing a disconnect with the world and long to replace depression, drugs, anxiety, or stress with an overall sense of calmness, a renewed confidence, and a certainty that what matters most in life is choosing not to remain stuck and stagnate in thoughts and sorrows that separate you from truly living your best life now, contact Reachout America today to be connected with an equine therapy camp
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National Non-Profit Organization Devises One Simple Solution to Resolve Three Complex Challenges: Special Needs Children, City Budgets, and Nonviolent Offenders
A solution to city, county, and state budgets - learn how non-violent offenders can stay out of the system by helping special needs kids through community service.
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National Non-Profit Organization Devises One Simple Solution to Resolve Three Complex Challenges: Special Needs Children, City Budgets, and Nonviolent Offenders
Mableton, GA, June 28, 2020 --(PR.com)-- The onslaught of the 2020 pandemic has hit many city, county, and state budgets across the country and has created a hole so deep that many systems struggle to find a way not only to meet all the brand new, unprecedented challenges, but also to continue to manage and provide support to established programs, organizations, and vulnerable populations. For Judges and other key decision-makers in the judicial system, the focus has been on how to budget already stretched funds needed to manage the burgeoning prison population. For parents, caregivers, and professionals caring for sick or special needs children, the focus has been on how to continue to provide these children with the opportunity to attend and experience life-enhancing therapy camps. For these two groups of individuals with distinctly-different challenges – nonviolent offenders and children with disabilities, a national 501(c) non-profit organization has devised a straightforward solution to help both groups while saving city and county budgets millions of dollars.
What’s the Solution?
Simple- Reachout America, a national foundation that enables physically challenged children across America the opportunity to attend, experience, and participate in therapeutic camps, has developed a unique way of keeping nonviolent offenders out of jail, saving judicial systems hundreds of thousands of dollars, and helping therapy camps continue to provide world-class, exceptional services to children with special needs: sentence nonviolent offenders to community service hours and help therapy camps. Please be advised that contact between the kids and the offender is not an option.
The Cost of Sending Nonviolent Offenders to Jail
The average daily cost to incarcerate a nonviolent offender is approximately one hundred dollars (providing they do not need special medical attention and/or, in many cases, have a pending lawsuit). The standard settlement or claim is roughly $40,000 per incident. The true cost of imprisoning nonviolent offenders in brick-and-mortar jail cells, however, reaches far beyond the astronomical financial cost of housing, feeding, and medically caring for them on a daily basis. The impact extends out to the community, to the families of the nonviolent offenders, and to the mindset and future outlook of the offenders. Whether they’re sentenced to a few days, weeks, or months, nonviolent offenders in jail typically lose their jobs while serving time behind bars. Further, unnecessary incarceration displaces families and puts undue stress and worry on the children, partners, and other relatives as they try to continue to support their family and maintain their apartments or homes while the main breadwinner sits in jail. Today, the USA workforce desperately needs more essential workers; by locking nonviolent offenders behind bars, they are missing opportunities to contribute to their communities as essential employees in the workforce.
The Savings Incurred
Sentencing a nonviolent offender to community service in lieu of jail time would provide huge savings to a community’s judicial system without any additional cost to implement the program. By embracing the use of community service hours to keep ten individuals out of jail per day in a small municipality, for example, that community’s economy would save over $400,000+ in expenses and lawsuits. A larger municipality that could prevent one hundred individuals from going to jail would conserve at least $4 million (not including lawsuits that could potentially add up to a couple more million).
The Challenge of “Community Service” Sentences
One challenge concerning community service opportunities is the minimal number of organizations and facilities across America that are already set up, positioned, and available for nonviolent offenders to complete their required hours of community service. Enter Reachout America. As an established national foundation headquartered in Georgia, Reachout America has helped children connect with unique and fun therapy camps across the country for decades – all of which are camps fully ready to provide community service hours to nonviolent offenders sent through the court system. Through Reachout America, individuals needing community service hours are able to choose a local therapy camp to support that would obtain funding from their hours completed; camps across America that have community service platforms in place range from horse riding camps that offer Hippotherapy to space camps for children who dream of flying to the moon. While many nonviolent offenders who have received probation hours from a Judge have elected to complete their service hours through Reachout America, the immediate availability of these therapy camps to provide community service hours far outweighs the number of individuals that are currently aware of the camps. Reachout America is working to expand that awareness.
Life-Changing Benefits
The focus of Reachout America is twofold - to raise awareness of children with special needs and to provide those children with the opportunity to experience therapeutic camps. The benefits reaped by those involved with this Foundation are life-changing and far-reaching. For the children, their parents, the caregivers, and the volunteers alike, everyone who has ever been connected to one or more of the therapy camps feels forever profoundly changed and grateful. Whichever option, platform, or fundraising campaign the nonviolent offender chooses to orchestrate on behalf of a therapy camp (and to complete his/her community service hours), the individuals completing their community service hours through these camps have the benefit of knowing their efforts contribute to children with Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Autism, Congenital Heart Disease (or any one of other countless other ailments) being able to attend a therapy camp. Many testimonials from nonviolent offenders share how serving their community hours for the benefit of a therapy camp profoundly inspired them to reflect on their past choices, count their current blessings, and set goals to become the best versions of themselves while continuing to be of service to others. It’s hard to imagine that nonviolent offenders sitting in jail cells for months would have those same testimonials on the day they are released back into the community.
Connecting with Reachout America
In this unprecedented, uncertain time for cities, states, the nation, and the world, Reachout America has provided a simple solution to help countless individuals, families, and systems in need. Reachout America is on a mission to let judicial systems across America know that there are therapy camps for children with disabilities ready to accept and help their nonviolent offenders complete their community service hours. For judicial systems that desire to balance their budgets, inspire nonviolent offenders to reposition their focus on the needs of others, and help children with special needs throughout their community, Reachout America has provided a way.
You can make a difference! Donate today at www.ReachoutAmerica.com, reach out to us at ReachoutAmericaInfo@Gmail.com or call toll free: (877)238-8544.
Contact
Reachout America
Bill Chafin
770-633-8544
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A Solution to City, County and State Budgets - Learn How Non-Violent Offenders Can Stay Out of the System by Helping Special Needs Kids Through Community Service.
The onslaught of the 2020 pandemic has hit many city, county, and state budgets across the country and has created a hole so deep that many systems struggle to find a way not only to meet all the brand new, unprecedented challenges, but also to continue to manage and provide support to established programs, organizations, and vulnerable populations. For Judges and other key decision-makers in the judicial system, the focus has been on how to budget already stretched funds needed to manage the burgeoning prison population. For parents, caregivers, and professionals caring for sick or special needs children, the focus has been on how to continue to provide these children with the opportunity to attend and experience life-enhancing therapy camps. For these two groups of individuals with distinctly-different challenges – nonviolent offenders and children with disabilities, a national 501(c)3 non-profit organization has devised a straightforward solution to help both groups while saving city and county budgets millions of dollars.
What’s the Solution?
Simple- Reachout America, a National Foundation that enables physically challenged children across America the opportunity to attend, experience, and participate in therapeutic camps, has developed a unique way of keeping nonviolent offenders out of jail, saving judicial systems hundreds of thousands of dollars, and helping therapy camps continue to provide world-class, exceptional services to children with special needs: sentence nonviolent offenders to community service hours and help therapy camps. Please be advised that contact between the kids and the offender is not an option.
The Cost of Sending Nonviolent Offenders to Jail
The average daily cost to incarcerate a nonviolent offender is approximately one hundred dollars (providing they do not need special medical attention and/or, in many cases, have a pending lawsuit). The standard settlement or claim is roughly $40,000 per incident. The true cost of imprisoning nonviolent offenders in brick-and-mortar jail cells, however, reaches far beyond the astronomical financial cost of housing, feeding, and medically caring for them on a daily basis. The impact extends out to the community, to the families of the nonviolent offenders, and to the mindset and future outlook of the offenders. Whether they’re sentenced to a few days, weeks, or months, nonviolent offenders in jail typically lose their jobs while serving time behind bars. Further, unnecessary incarceration displaces families and puts undue stress and worry on the children, partners, and other relatives as they try to continue to support their family and maintain their apartments or homes while the main breadwinner sits in jail. Today, the USA workforce desperately needs more essential workers; by locking nonviolent offenders behind bars, they are missing opportunities to contribute to their communities as essential employees in the workforce.
The Savings Incurred
Sentencing a nonviolent offender to community service in lieu of jail time would provide huge savings to a community’s judicial system without any additional cost to implement the program. By embracing the use of community service hours to keep ten individuals out of jail per day in a small municipality, for example, that community’s economy would save over $400,000+ in expenses and lawsuits. A larger municipality that could prevent one hundred individuals from going to jail would conserve at least $4 million (not including lawsuits that could potentially add up to a couple more million).
The Challenge of “Community Service” Sentences
One challenge concerning community service opportunities is the minimal number of organizations and facilities across America that are already set up, positioned, and available for nonviolent offenders to complete their required hours of community service. Enter Reachout America. As an established national foundation headquartered in Georgia, Reachout America has helped children connect with unique and fun therapy camps across the country for decades – all of which are camps fully ready to provide community service hours to nonviolent offenders sent through the court system. Through Reachout America, individuals needing community service hours are able to choose a local therapy camp to support that would obtain funding from their hours completed; camps across America that have community service platforms in place range from horse riding camps that offer Hippotherapy to space camps for children who dream of flying to the moon. While many nonviolent offenders who have received probation hours from a Judge have elected to complete their service hours through Reachout America, the immediate availability of these therapy camps to provide community service hours far outweighs the number of individuals that are currently aware of the camps. Reachout America is working to expand that awareness.
Life-Changing Benefits
The focus of Reachout America is twofold - to raise awareness of children with special needs and to provide those children with the opportunity to experience therapeutic camps. The benefits reaped by those involved with this Foundation are life-changing and far-reaching. For the children, their parents, the caregivers, and the volunteers alike, everyone who has ever been connected to one or more of the therapy camps feels forever profoundly changed and grateful. Whichever option, platform, or fundraising campaign the nonviolent offender chooses to orchestrate on behalf of a therapy camp (and to complete his/her community service hours), the individuals completing their community service hours through these camps have the benefit of knowing their efforts contribute to children with Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Autism, Congenital Heart Disease (or any one of other countless other ailments) being able to attend a therapy camp. Many testimonials from nonviolent offenders share how serving their community hours for the benefit of a therapy camp profoundly inspired them to reflect on their past choices, count their current blessings, and set goals to become the best versions of themselves while continuing to be of service to others. It’s hard to imagine that nonviolent offenders sitting in jail cells for months would have those same testimonials on the day they are released back into the community.
Connecting with Reachout America
In this unprecedented, uncertain time for cities, states, the nation, and the world, Reachout America has provided a simple solution to help countless individuals, families, and systems in need. Reachout America is on a mission to let judicial systems across America know that there are therapy camps for children with disabilities ready to accept and help their nonviolent offenders complete their community service hours. For judicial systems that desire to balance their budgets, inspire nonviolent offenders to reposition their focus on the needs of others, and help children with special needs throughout their community, Reachout America has provided a way.
You can make a difference! Reach out to us at ReachoutAmericaInfo@Gmail.com or call toll free: (877)238-8544. https://reachoutamerica.com/
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Reachout America
Bill Chafin
770-633-8544