Dear Jason Baker:

On behalf of the Minneapolis VAMC patients and staff, we would like to extend our gratitude to you and the volunteers that make up Project Healing Waters.  We thank you for assisting us in providing a valuable and therapy focused program for the veterans receiving care at our facility.  This program would not have been so successful without your expertise, willingness to share your talents and use of the fly fishing equipment.  Our Recreation Therapy Staff appreciates the many people affiliated with Project Healing Waters as they have truly added to the rehabilitation process for our veterans.

Working on skills such as sequencing steps while tying flies and standing balance while casting the fly rod are all important elements of functional independence and returning home.  Our hope is that our veterans will want to continue fly fishing once they return home and access their local fly fishing club as a way to stay connected and supported in the community setting.  Thank you for helping us get our veterans interested in returning to the community again and for teaching them the importance of maintaining a healthy leisure lifestyle.  This morale boosting process would not be possible without your generosity.

Sincerely,

Shannan Anderson, CTRS

Polytrauma Recreation Therapy