Veterans Exploration Therapy (V.E.T.) is a Colorado 501(c)(3) nonprofit, founded July 31, 2022, and led by veterans. In 2025 alone, we ran 42 programs (40 single-day and 2 multi-day) for 375 veterans, service members and family members.
Our mission: empowering veterans, service members, and families to explore the wilderness and therapeutic pathways through outdoor recreation. Every program is built to help participants push past fear, rediscover purpose, and build real connections through shared adventure.
V.E.T. is not just an adventure group. We use adventure as a catalyst for healing and growth. Whether it's skydiving, diving with sharks, climbing a mountain or working with horses, every experience shows veterans they don't have to face life's challenges alone. There is always someone on the other end of the rope.
We proudly partner with the 988 Colorado Mental Health Lifeline, Colorado Outward Bound School, and the National Sports Center for the Disabled, and others to connect participants with ongoing mental health and wellness resources. We are deeply grateful to our sponsors whose support makes our work possible.
Join us in helping veterans and their families thrive long after their service. Your support fuels every adventure, every connection, and every life changed. Through December 8, the first $100 of every new monthly gift made on ColoradoGives.org is matched.
Together we're showing that taking care of yourself is strength, and so is reaching out for help when you need it.
Empowering veterans, service members, and families to explore the wilderness and therapeutic pathways through outdoor recreation.
Every day, more than 17 veterans die by suicide, and the real number is likely higher. Operation Deep Dive, a study led by America's Warrior Partnership with Duke University and the University of Alabama, found the toll could be as high as 44 veterans a day once deaths recorded as accidents, such as overdoses and single-vehicle crashes, are counted. Every one of those numbers has a name, a family, and a community. Too many never got the support they needed. That's where we come in.
Veterans Exploration Therapy (V.E.T.) offers a different path. We use outdoor adventure as a catalyst for healing, connection, and growth. Skydiving, diving with sharks, rock climbing, mountain biking, paddleboarding, working with horses and hiking all give veterans a way to rediscover purpose and strength, in themselves and in one another.
Our approach is simple. We bring veterans together outdoors, where walls come down and conversations about mental health happen on their own. We treat mental health like any other injury: caught early, it's treatable. Left alone, it can become dangerous. That's why we keep reminding veterans that courage isn't only shown in uniform. It also shows up when you ask for help and take care of yourself.
At our core, we believe every veteran deserves belonging and real hope for the future. By connecting veterans and their families to the wilderness and to each other, we're proving that healing is possible, life is worth living, and no one has to walk this path alone.
Organization name
Veterans Exploration Therapy
other names
V.E.T. VETXTHERAPY
2022
Tax id (EIN)
88-1328493
Category
Military & Veterans Organizations
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
621 Kalamath St Ste 140Headquarters
621 Kalamath St Ste 140Denver, CO, US
Colorado Springs, CO, US
Fort Collins, CO, US
Grand Junction, CO, US
Durango, CO, US