Help Our Heroes Fight The Battles They Can No Longer Fight Alone
Here at the Ruyts Foundation of Veteran Suicide Prevention, our mission is to bring awareness to veteran suicide and help stop it from even taking place.
Our Mission
We must stand together and put an end to veteran suicide. While one person may not make a difference, we believe those that band together can and will! Suicide needs to become a thing of the past! Let’s help our heroes fight the battles they can no longer fight alone!
2019 US total deaths by suicide
Average deaths by suicide per day
2019 Veteran deaths by suicide
Average veteran deaths by suicide per day
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Annual Events
Annual Race to End Vet Suicide & Freedom Fest
When: September 17th 2022
Where: Dominion Raceway, 6501 Dominion Raceway Ave., Thornburg, VA 22580
All registration will come with a medal, shirt, swag bag and more goodies!
Interested in sponsoring an upcoming event or helping a veteran with mental health services?
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Check out these awesome pics shot by Matthew Rose from Roses-Are-Red Photography and edits by our marketing director Marcus Toler with 360 Marketing Online.
Shout out to all our sponsors who made this event possible. We are able to feed around 75 people at the event.
The pics are great!!!!
Did you know there are a ton of ways to support our heroes through RFVSP? Here’s just 3 of those ways listed below!
We are in need of many volunteers for our upcoming Race to End Vet Suicide and Freedom Fest 9/17/2022! We are also looking for 2 more volunteers for the 11th Annual Black Tie Gala, you will get free admission to Gala, who wouldn’t want to get dressed up and help save our heroes for a night!!!!
From the Blog
My Son Took His Own Life. Here’s Why You Should Stop Saying ‘Committed Suicide.’
This article is a sad but good read in explaining why we should not say someone “committed suicide” we should say “they died by suicide”. I challenge you all to take the words committed suicide out of your vocabulary after reading this and replace them with died by...
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