ABOUT
OPERATION AMPED

Operation Amped’s MISSION is to share the “stoke” of the surfing community and the healing potential of surfing with seriously ill, injured, and or disabled U.S. military veterans and their families. 

Our VISION is that of a surfing community that acts on our appreciation of and gratitude for the great sacrifices of our servicemen and women through providing a welcoming environment that seeks to share the community, grounding, and healing of surfing.

Operation Amped seeks to accomplish this Mission and realize this Vision through the following strategies.

• We recognize the positive influence of nature in the therapeutic healing process

• We recognize the positive benefit of stress, or eustress, in the process

• We recognize the client’s active choice in participation and of their responsibility in the therapeutic process

• We maintain a focus on the possibility of positive change in the participant’s present and future distinctly different than their past.

• We are firmly committed to a strong ethic of care and support, embraced throughout the Operation Amped experience, particularly given the potential of surfing as an unfamiliar experience

• The services that Operation Amped provides are founded in evidenced based research and practice

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