Veterans & First Responders Retreats
What are our Veterans & First Responders Retreats?
StirrUp Purpose is dedicated to supporting and improving the lives of its veteran and first responder communities. Equine services provide emotional, cognitive, social and physical benefits for veterans, first responders and their families. Individuals working with horses have reported benefits including: increased self-esteem, self-worth, trust for others and community integration as well as decreased depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder attacks and self-inflicting thoughts.
Back Country Multi-Day and Single Day Trail Rides
StirrUp Purpose participants will experience a lifetime of benefits from the camaraderie that comes from having a shared purpose, which will allow them to better reconnect with themselves, their families, and their communities. Multi-day retreats, equine-assisted activities and back country rides provide an opportunity for relationship building through recreation. While our back country multi-day rides and single trail rides are primarily May-October, they are weather dependent so we may adjust the season earlier or later. An important vision of StirrUp Purpose is to create respite, healing and peer support for our veterans and first responders through meaningful equine related retreats and adventures.
Cross the Divide
Since 2023, StirrUp Purpose has partnered with Cross the Divide, a faith-based veteran support program to offer back country retreats for active and retired military. Cross the Divide offers many kinds of retreats and events for veterans and their families across the country and StirrUp Purpose is proud to partner with them to reach veterans in need here in central Oregon.