What it's about
Camp Hero is a planned veterans transitional living environment designed specifically to support the residency needs of veterans who are engaged in PTSD recovery. The goal is to create the first living environment farm to serve as a model for other organizations to follow.

Camp Hero will be a place where returning heroes can call home for 3-12 months during their transition back to civilian life. It would be difficult to exhaust the need to care for our returning men and women in a responsible, honorable way.

Not just horses
The heroes that make the farm their home for a short time will have access to resources and professionals to assist with employment preparation and search, college admissions and financial aid, access to rehabilitative services, fitness trails for maintaining health, and community outreach opportunities to strengthen their ties back into the American fabric.

They will have to do some chores, as they would any place they live, and likely most importantly, there will be a sharing from veteran to veteran, in ways that the average American just would not understand.

Partnering
Of course, those of us at American Heroes Return who are sponsoring this restreat would be derelict in our own duties if we did not reach out to military and civilian organizations and partner where appropriate to ensure we are providing the best range of services to our men and women coming back from war. A great program is not buildings, horses, or wide open spaces, although all of that helps, but a great program is built on strong ties and networking to others who also have the veteran's best interest in mind and provide services to compliment ours, and ours to compliment theirs.

A hand up, not out
This is not just a restful restreat– it is a place Americans honor them with recreation, good honest daily work, and  resources and time to secure education and employment opportunities.  This is not a hand out but instead, a well deserved hand up for our veterans.