Goals
Since 2011, Operation Healing Forces has steadily grown, making a meaningful impact in the Special Operations Forces community.
Since its inception in 2011, OHF has served over 10,000 individuals, and has invested $25 million in the development and implementation of essential programs which have proven to reduce significant health risk factors associated with the SOF community.
In 2025 alone, Operation Healing Forces will conduct 55 therapeutic retreats and provide approximately $1,000,000 in crisis support through its Immediate Needs Program to assist Special Operators and their families.
Operation Healing Forces is committed to empowering and uplifting the Special Operations community through programs that foster healing, connection, and long-term well-being. From rekindling relationships and forging unbreakable bonds to providing critical support in times of crisis, OHF ensures that no SOF service member, veteran, family member, or caregiver walks their journey alone.
Three core pillars serve as the driving force behind OHF’s mission, fueling growth and expanding its impact in the SOF community:
Reintegration
OHF helps the SOF wounded couple to reintegrate with each other.
In addition, many veterans and their mates have often discovered an ability to heal from within and reconnect with what’s good in life as they share experiences, information, and interact with other SOF operators and their spouses who have undergone similar difficult circumstances.
Rehabilitation
Many SOF wounded return from the battlefield not only with physical wounds but also with unseen wounds. When a warrior is wounded, it’s not just the service member but also the family who is injured. Too often the family gets caught in a cycle of repeated deployments, hospitals, physical therapy, rehabilitation and unit mission demands to the detriment of the family.
OHF provides a therapeutic experience far from the horrors of war to allow healing of the service member and the family.
Resiliency
OHF presents a program that has proved to save marriages and increase resiliency and health among participants. OHF is one of the very few programs that honor not only the service members but also their life partners.
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.
One participant noted,
“Upon arrival of these five couples who had never met had one thing in common: They shared the same blank, absent look on their faces. By the end of the retreat, you could read emotion on their faces and in their eyes, and you could literally see them coming back to life.”
