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Healing and Support for Special Operations Forces
Operation Healing Forces' vision is that all members of the Special Operations Forces community are able to enhance their resilience, empower their rehabilitation, embrace their reintegration, and lead fulfilling and productive lives.

Healing and Support for
Special Operations Forces

Healing and Support for Special Operations Forces
Operation Healing Forces' vision is that all members of the Special Operations Forces community are able to enhance their resilience, empower their rehabilitation, embrace their reintegration, and lead fulfilling and productive lives.

Healing and Support for
Special Operations Forces

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Creating Bonds that Cure

Operation Healing Forces (OHF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to America’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) who have served at the Tip of the Spear in our nation’s battle to defeat violent extremists around the world. We focus on restoring the bonds broken by the unique challenges of Special Ops deployments, providing critical support to these courageous warriors and their loved ones as they navigate the impact of service on their relationships. Donate today and help us heal the unseen wounds of war.

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Therapeutic Couples and Caregiver retreats for SOF families

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SOF Couples retreats and Caregiver retreats planned in 2025

Operation Healing Forces

Supporting America’s Elite Heroes and Their Families

 

Operation Healing Forces (OHF) aims to provide programs that support America’s Special Operations Forces service members.   OHF offers a suite of opportunities such as free therapeutic retreats, emergency financial assistance grants, virtual wellness coaching, and a variety of educational and development resources for active duty, wounded, ill, injured, and fallen Special Operations Forces service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors.

Our mission is to promote long-term mental, physical, emotional, and fiscal well-being for the men and women who make up America’s most elite military units.

 

About OHF

Special Operations Forces Military family, standing next to a horse on an Operation Healing Forces retreat

Retreat Programs That Strengthen Military Families

OHF offers a couples retreat program that has proved to save marriages and increase resiliency and health among participants. OHF’s therapeutic retreats are one of the very few programs that honor not only the service members, but also their life partners and caregivers.

The program creates strong, positive memories for the couple to heal wounds, repair fissures in relationships, build resiliency, save couples from past trauma, and also strengthen bonds for future continued service in America’s military or as veterans in civilian society.

Retreats for Military Couples

TESTIMONIALS

“To see my husband be a part of something he has missed so much. Retirement has been hard on him and he has struggled to find friendships that understand what our life has been like while in the military.”

Comments from SOF couples retreats
“It’s a thankless life but this retreat honestly made me feel acknowledged and made me feel like this life is worthwhile. That there are people who appreciate what we go through. I was in tears most of the trip (and I’m not normally a crier) because I was just so grateful and thankful.”

Comments from SOF couples retreats

Emergency Financial Support and Grants

 

The Special Operations Additional Resource Program (SOAR) addresses urgent financial needs arising from medical emergencies for SOF service members, veterans, and their families. It also supports expenses like medical and adaptive equipment not provided by the government, and funeral and memorial costs (including family travel) that exceed government coverage. Furthermore, it offers relief or respite care for those providing full-time care, one-time financial aid for transition or employment opportunities (such as travel expenses), and other emergency financial assistance for families facing crises.

 

SOAR: Crisis Support

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Events & Fundraisers

Every event hosted by Operation Healing Forces plays a vital role in our mission to provide healing and support to Special Operation Forces and their families. By attending or sponsoring our fundraising, charity, and awareness events, you directly contribute to life-changing therapeutic retreats and essential resources. Explore our calendar to see how you can make a tangible impact and show your appreciation for those who sacrifice so much.

Impact Stories

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Our Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors have pledged to pay all overhead and administrative costs for Operation Healing Forces. Because of their generosity, 100% of all donations go directly toward supporting Special Operators and their families.

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