Each Rivers of Recovery trip hosts up to eight combat veterans on a four-day, science-based, experiential rehabilitation program focusing on confidence building, outdoor activities, and talk therapy.

The ROR program impacts the current rehabilitation landscape—changing the way PTS is treated for hundreds of thousands of active-duty military and veterans. Our goal is to provide a crucial step in maximizing our participants’ reintegration and contributions to their families, communities, and society.

Immersion in nature can make us aware of not only our relationship with our natural environment, but also our relationships with each other.

Outdoor programming like the fly-fishing outings conducted by Rivers of Recovery offer the potential to emphasize both social and physical environments and the role each plays in fostering health and resilience. The connections between healthy ecology and healthy humans are articulated by eco-psychologists who argue that what we need as people to be mentally healthy is much the same as our planet needs. Contact with nature, and acts of caring for nature, can therefore inform efforts to address the risk and adversity some veterans may face, as has been discovered by participants through the Rivers of Recovery program.

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OUR PROGRAM

Each Rivers of Recovery trip hosts up to eight combat veterans on a four-day, science-based, experiential rehabilitation program focusing on confidence building, outdoor activities, and talk therapy. Trips are conducted in a relaxed, positive environment using proven techniques on the self-management of symptoms, stressors and responses.

Multiple peer-reviewed studies have proven ROR’s system provides profound benefits: the fly fishing and hunting instruction processes increases self-confidence, the resulting skill-improvement builds empowerment, and the resulting achievement facilitates enthusiasm and resiliency. Being immersed in an outdoor environment accentuates these positives. The social interaction among participants reinforces a sense of success, empowerment, and a reconnection to self.

All fishing and hunting therapies are conducted with professionally licensed guides. The program is low-impact and requires very little walking – making it possible to serve as many veterans as possible.

Through philanthropic contributions, Rivers of Recovery trips are free to the participant, with $2,500 covering airfare, lodging, guiding/instruction, meals and research study.

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