Our programs are designed to offer veterans experience, opportunity, and in many cases a path to starting a new profession or business. Meeting, working with, and learning from fellow veterans is more than a social exercise, it's therapeutic. Our programs strive to deliver a valuable and stabilizing message, that after years of focusing on the bigger mission and protecting everyone else, it’s okay to start focusing on you. Our motto, Believe in You! crystalizes our message and inspires our efforts. Programs include:
BUSINESS AND SALES SKILLS TRAINING
Hands-on mentorship. From folks who've been there.
This robust program combines practical training, mentorship, and hands-on experience to foster entrepreneurship, financial independence, and professional growth.
A key feature of the program is the "After-the-Fact Mentor Program," which provides ongoing guidance and support long after veterans complete the training.
By empowering veterans to build their own paths to success, this program creates lasting impacts for veterans, their families, and their communities.
WOODWORKING
Crafting Skills, Confidence and Community.
A transformative initiative designed to empower veterans through the art of woodworking.
This program provides hands-on training in essential woodworking skills while offering a therapeutic outlet for creativity, stress relief, and personal growth.
By combining skill-building with emotional healing, this program equips veterans with the tools they need to support themselves and their families, fostering resilience, independence, and purpose.
EQUINE THERAPY AND SEMPER FI SERVICE DOGS
Serving those who selflessly serve others.
Equine therapy focuses on the positive and therapeutic interactions between horse and human. Veterans will learn how to care for, groom, and communicate with these majestic creatures. Basic riding skills are also taught.
A key feature of the program is the "After-the-Fact Mentor Program," which provides ongoing guidance and support long after veterans complete the training.
The research supporting the use of dogs as therapy animals is overwhelming. Much of the Semper Fi Service Dogs program is about understanding how to care for, interact with, train, and bond with these animals. Potential for certification as a trainer and handler is also a potential path for our veterans.
FORGING AND FARRIER
Crafting Blades. Building Skills. Shoeing Strength.
The program combines the art of blade smithing with the practical skill of furriery, offering veterans a unique and transformative experience. This program equips participants with the ability to forge knives, blades, and tools while also mastering the skill of horseshoeing. Through hands-on training, therapeutic benefits, and entrepreneurial opportunities, veterans gain valuable skills that can lead to meaningful careers and a renewed sense of purpose.
LASER ENGRAVING AND CNC MACHINING
Craftsmanship meets innovation.
Utilizing innovative technology, we focus on crafting highquality products from materials such as wood, glass, metal, stone, crystal, brass, silver, and gold.
Our 8,000 square foot onsite facility serves as a training hub, production facility, and resource center for veterans to gain employment or start their own businesses in this field.
CULINARY SKILLS
Feeding the Community. Building a Future.
From the fundamentals of running a restaurant to unlocking an undiscovered Iron Chef, our culinary program offers an array of hands-on experiences designed to introduce veterans to a bedrock American enterprise that offers broad opportunities to hone business and operational skills along with the satisfaction that comes with providing the community with a simple shared pleasure: a great meal. Veterans will have the chance to work in real-world culinary settings while learning the intricacies of the hospitality and unlocking their hidden skills.
Contact us today to find out how you can make a difference in a warrior's life!
