The Peace at Home Project for Military Families
Where military families find their way back to peace at home.
We forge conditions where military families connect to each other, the land, and animals. On a working ranch on the Flint River, veterans and their families heal with horses, licensed clinicians, and each other.
2014
Founded by a veteran family
5,000+
Food-bearing plants placed on veteran lands
7
Clinicians and equine specialists
2027
The new barn opens
Our conviction
Veterans are not a charity. They are an investment.
A nation where families secure peace, strengthen communities and are no longer burdened by the multi-generational impacts of war. That is the nation we are working toward, one family at a time, since 2014.
Each other
Peer-to-peer at the core. Military families guide military families, because the ones who have walked the road home know where it bends.
The land
A working ranch on the Flint River. Gardens, orchards, and chores that ask something of you, and give more back.
The animals
Horses that read what people carry, sanctuary animals, and therapy dogs. Connection that talk alone rarely reaches.
What happens here
Four ways in.
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Action-oriented sessions with horses on the ground and in the saddle, built for military culture. It often works where traditional treatment has failed.
EAGALA Military Services / Natural Lifemanship / Parelli
Counseling & Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Evidence-based treatment from licensed clinicians, including ART, a therapy that reprograms how distressing memories are stored. Many clients feel relief after the first session.
Licensed counselors / Veterans Choice providers
Veteran Grown Food
Care farming run by veterans, for veterans. Over three years, more than 5,000 food-bearing plants and trees were placed on veteran family lands.
Care farming / Therapeutic horticulture
Family Retreats on the Flint
Weekends on a working ranch where military families breathe, work, and heal together. In one spouse's words: that weekend saved us.
Waypoint River Ranch
In their words
“I would not be alive now if it weren't for this ranch.”
“The horse allowed me to focus on something outside of my own mind. I slept great last night.”
“That weekend saved us. Thank you for the gift you've given and been to us.”
Opening 2027
A new waypoint on the ranch.
A two-story working barn is coming to Waypoint Ranch: a saddle room and hay loft below, and above them the thing we have never had, a gathering room with a kitchen where group sessions, retreats, and training can run year round. It is the cornerstone of our plan to grow nature-based therapy here, and it opens in 2027.
42' x 22'
Footprint
924 sq ft
First floor
862 sq ft
Second floor
Come stand on the land.
Visits are by appointment, and every visit starts with a conversation. Whether you are a veteran family, a clinician, or someone who wants to invest in both, we would like to meet you.