Healing Warriors Program

“A draft of the 990 will be sent to the board prior to filing.”

“Our board secretary, shelley polland (who became secretary in 2024), ensures that everyone receives board documents annually and sign off on them. Conflict of interest is also enquired about and discussed.”

“Compensation is determined on the budget based on a low-median range of salary for exec dir role in the fort collins geographic area. There is board discussion and approval vote monthly and hinges on whether there is sufficient money available to pay the executive director.”

“Documents are published on guidestar and on coloradogives (community foundation) website.”

“We have 3 primary sources of volunteer help: 1) service organizations: these include the young men's service league/elementary and middle schools in poudre school district who provide volunteers for parades and for special projects such as letter writing or toy collection. 2) corporate supporters: local businesses will often offer opportunities for their employees to volunteer for a day at a nonprofit of their choice. We currently work with several businesses who provide paid employee "volunteer" days including elevations credit union/scheels/colorado youth outdoors 3) staff members: our staff members regularly volunteer for homeless veteran stand down events, yellow ribbon post deployments, parades, and other outreach events. 4) client volunteers: existing clients and families volunteer at our fundraising events/local outreach events to help educate the community on firsthand services and benefits.”

“Healing warriors program (hwp) became a 501(c)(3) in october 2012 and has been operating a nonprofit clinic in ft. Collins since july 2013. Our mission is to improve the wellness of service members and their families through non-narcotic care. We utilize a medical model, with program consults and client care specialist coordinating access to community resources and treatment modalities, including acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, healing touch, and coping kits tailored to a client specific treatment need. Services are free to veterans, active-duty members, and their family support. All these services have researched-based effectiveness in treating pain, anxiety, sleeplessness, ptsd, traumatic brain injury (tbi), suicide risk, and loss of connectedness. Healing warriors program is unique in the services it provides, with no one else in colorado providing these services, and we have only found one other in the us providing similar services. Hwp currently has a 5-day-a-week clinic in fort collins and a once-a-week satellite clinic in aurora and colorado springs. We maintain one monthly walk-in/popup clinic in denver. The satellite clinics are in counties with the highest percentage of veterans. We do aim to increase fundraising efforts to add additional clinic day to the satellite clinics. In addition hwp partners with other organizations on fundraising events, resource fairs, and in support of veterans through stand down and yellow ribbon events. We are part of a collective effort to meet the needs of colorado veterans through being a recipient of the veterans assistance grant and the ssg fox suicide prevention grant (through the federal va), which helps increase access to non-narcotic care and decrease risk factors for suicide in service members. As of 12/31/2024, healing warriors program has delivered over 40,000 clinic sessions with measurable impact and symptom changes, pre- and post- treatment sessions for all three modalities. For 2024, clients reported the following decrease in symptoms. "healing touch: 67% decrease in anxiety, 60% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 50% decrease in physical pain "acupuncture: 52% decrease in anxiety, 49% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 50% decrease in physical pain. "cranial sacral therapy: 57% decrease in anxiety, 53% decrease in emotional discomfort, and 48% decrease in physical pain healing warriors program has been the recipient of many prestigious awards in recognition of the importance that healing warriors plays in veterans and their families lives. Among hwp's greatest honors has been to receive the newman's own 2018 award where healing warriors program was chosen as 1 of 5 veteran nonprofits nationally to be honored at the pentagon and presented with the award by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford. In 2021, hwp executive director, ana yelen, won 3 prestigious awards, the 2021 bizwest media-women of distinction awards for non-profits, the 2021 bizwest notable women in non-profits and the aarp 2022 purpose prize fellows award. And with our newest recognition proclaiming april 15th, "healing warriors day" by jennifer arndt, mayor of fort collins, officially signed april 15, 2025.”

“2023 payroll adjustment -12,364 2023 a/r adjustment -3,422 total -15,786 no audit was performed on the 2023 financial statements. During the performance of the 2024 audit procedures adjustments were made to opening net asset balances to correct net assets for 2023 payroll expenses (12,364) improperly excluded from recognition in 2023, and 2023 accounts receivable allowance for current expected credit losses (3,422) improperly excluded from recognition in 2023.”