The need is urgent. The healing is possible.
Every day, Veterans, service members, and their families come to Healing Warriors Program seeking relief from PTSD, TBI, chronic pain, anxiety, trauma, and sleep disorders. Many are struggling silently. Some are in crisis.
Your Colorado Gives Day gift provides immediate access to no-cost, non-narcotic therapies including Acupuncture, Craniosacral Therapy, and Healing Touch Therapy, helping our heroes find relief, hope, and healing.
Since 2013, we have provided more than 60,000 treatment sessions and continue to expand care for Veterans, Active Duty, Reservists, National Guard members, and military families throughout Colorado.
When a Veteran reaches out for help, they shouldn't have to wait.
Donate today and help us prevent suicide, reduce suffering, and ensure life-changing care remains available to every Veteran and family who needs it.
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“Healing Warriors allows me to be independent. Without it I wouldn’t be able to drive or walk, I seriously have no idea where I would be without this organization. It’s comforting that they relate to you on a human level and treat you like you matter.“
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"This is the only thing that helps. I can walk in here, in so much pain and stiffness that I can hardly move, and leave feeling like a bowl of jello. This is the only place where I feel safe and like I'm me again."
-Air force vet/ SSGFG client
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"I am doing so much better, I'm sleeping again, I have more mobility and can get out and do more. This program has saved my life."
-Army Spouse
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"This has been a huge part of my healing journey, and I wouldn't have survived this last year if it wasn't for all that you do."
-Army Vet /SSGFG Client
Healing Warriors Program envisions a suicide-free world where all veterans and their families thrive. Our mission is to improve wellness of veterans and their families through non-narcotic care. Healing Warriors Program provides Integrative Care therapy for Pain, TBI, sleep disturbance, Post Traumatic Stress and other challenges to Service members and their families.
We know that contributing factors to veteran suicides are mental health issues, narcotic use/addiction, unresolved chronic pain from physical trauma, Post Traumatic Stress, Interpersonal trauma and more. The size of the problem has overwhelmed many of the existing channels for care on a national level and communities are turning to the nonprofit sector to provide for the gaps in care. Healing Warriors Program, a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, exists to provide non-narcotic options to opioids and interrupt the factors that contribute to veteran suicide. We also have clinics in Aurora, and Co Springs, Colorado.
Co-founders Ana Yelen and Rochelle Poland met when Ana was still a senior manager at high-tech giant, Sun Microsystems and Rochelle was a product manager at another tech giant, Arrow Electronics. Since both were certified as Healing Touch practitioners, they recognized a need for non-narcotic care options for returning service members. The first annual Service day event was organized in 2007 as a privately-sponsored service event. The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space museum generously hosted the free clinic event which included 14 practitioners donating their time and skill to veteran and active duty service members and their families between 2007-2010. In 2010, Rochelle and Ana's volunteer relationship with Lifespark Cancer Resources resulted in an opportunity to provide a Service Day of free clinic services at the Denver VA Medical center for Nurse's day. The practitioner team provided free sessions from 8 am to 7 pm and with a high demand for services, the event was deemed a success.
Denver VA requested the team back over several years afterwards. As headlines blazed with rising suicide rates among our service members, a national Opioid crisis, and veteran care delays, the need for care options was clear. Seeing the crisis, Shelley and Ana were joined by Jane Trexler, whose parents were both United States Marines, to determine how best to serve our Veteran community. In the fall of 2012, they established a 501c3 nonprofit clinic, Healing Warriors Program. In January 2013, a planning team was assembled to create the operating model and standards. In late June 2013, one of the planning team members, Jackie Cooper, offered free clinic space in her clinic, providing the fledgling Healing Warriors Program organization with a space to operate a pilot clinic. This clinic opened its doors in July 2013. Within 4 months, it was clear that more space was needed and Healing Warriors Program clinic moved to 2-room treatment clinic with a private reception area and business office.
With no funding to spread the word, and relying on volunteer staff, it was unclear whether the clinic would be able to survive. But our veterans, having experienced results, stepped in and spread the word for us. It wasn't long before the demand for services, generated from word of mouth referrals, grew, making it necessary for the clinic to move once again in 2014, this time to a 4-room treatment clinic open 5 days a week. In March of 2019, having outgrown our space again, we moved to our current headquarters clinic at 1044 West Drake Road. This clinic space has increased our capacity by adding another treatment room and a business office. From our opening in July of 2013 to present, the Healing Warriors Program clinic team has delivered over 50,000 sessions.
In 2024, we launched an expansion effort of adding more clinics as we expand services to other areas of Colorado in hopes to reach vulnerable populations of Veterans. We now have 2 weekly Satellite Clinics in Aurora & Colorado Springs, improving access to care.
Organization name
Healing Warriors Program
2012
Category
Military & Veterans Organizations
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
1044 West Drake Road Ste 202Larimer County, CO, US
Weld, CO, US
Arapahoe, CO, US
El Paso, CO, US
WY, US