VETERAN RITES INC

Veteran Rites initiates veterans into true Identity, Purpose, and Belonging after military service through ceremonial rites of passage in the wilderness and a return to meaningful relationship in society. Our Base to Belonging model includes Roots to Resilience Transition Course, 12-Day Rite of Return Initiation, Integration Support, and Circles of Return where initiated veterans deploy their talents to combat veteran isolation. We are on the front lines of whole veteran suicide prevention and a VA SSG Parker Gordon Fox Suicide Prevention Program partner. We deeply need diversified funding support from the public sector so we can serve all veterans, service-members, partners, spouses, family members, and survivors of suicide loss. Your support empowers Veteran Rites to remove any and all barriers in our people finding the healing and community worthy of their sacrifice.

In neighborhoods, we convene Circles of Return that get to the heart of what we carry so we don't have to shoulder it alone. At the Rite of Return, we answer the soul’s call for deep healing in the wilderness, separated from society, in order to cross the line to who we are truly called to be once we've hung up the uniform. Our veteran-led ceremony has proven to drastically reduce the symptoms of PTS, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and suicidal thoughts by embracing all aspects of our human nature, identity, and experience.

We are the bridge for the veteran soul after military service.