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
Veteran Support Services
We need your help! Become a Volunteer.
Annual Events
24K-12K-6K-2M to End Veteran Suicide
When: Saturday, October 2nd, 2021
Where: Dominion Raceway, 6501 Dominion Raceway Ave., Thornburg, VA 22580
All registration will come with a medal, shirt, swag bag and more goodies!
Motorcycle Ride to End Veteran Suicide
When: Fall 2020
Where: Dominion Raceway, 6501 Dominion Raceway Ave., Thornburg, VA 22580
Check back with us for details of the upcoming ride!
Interested in sponsoring an upcoming event or helping a veteran with mental health services?
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Happy Saturday everyone! We are almost finished with everything to publish race link for 2022! Who is excited?
Hello everyone, we want to thank each and everyone who came out yesterday to support our mission to raise awareness, promote prevention, and end veteran soldier suicide forever. While not everything went as planned, we showed our support for every hero that fights these battles daily. Next year our Race will be October 8th 2022, more details will come soon. We will also have the run signup soon. All runners who registered this year will get $20 off their next year’s registration if signed up by 12/31/2021! We thank you again and can not wait to see you all in 2022!
Neal and I loved the event. We had great connections for Transitions 4 You and Behind A Smile.
Thank you! I received one of your pumpkins and it lead me to the organization! Haven't heard of them till now. It was a blessing to see it this morning!!!!
I love it!!! What a great idea to do with these pumpkins!
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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