Our Mission...our Purpose

About the DTOM 22/0 Foundation and Veterans Ranch

We are a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Foundation, our # is 82-0917469. DTOM is a military acronym that stands for Dont Tread On Me. The meaning dates back to before the founding of our nation, when in 1775 the Navy used it as the first Navy Jack. The 22 stands for the recognized average of 22 Veterans per day dying from suicide. The 0 represents our goal. When you add up the average circle of friends and family that affects EVERYDAY is comes to 2,860, PER DAY! We are working on building up our families and the support structure to help our Heroes find their purpose again. To show these people how important they are. As a people, we must come together and find other ways to end this plague within our Military! What is being done now is not enough and we cannot continue to let them be taken from us. Saying "Thank You" is NOT enough. With all they have sacrificed, it is our DUTY to take care of them . This is our plan. #HonorTheOath

DTOM 22/0 Foundation Mission Statement and Vision:

The mission of the DTOM 22/0 Foundation and Veterans Ranch is to provide a safe place for healing and recovery for military service members, veterans, and their families while encouraging engaging, and positively impacting their lives through hope, self-conviction, and family activities, while helping them learn to live again with purpose.

Vision: To end suicide among our service men and women, through mentorship, support, and building stronger families.

CEO and Founder

Chris Reder

As Founder and CEO, at 17, I enlisted and proudly served as a Cryptologic Naval Intelligence Analyst, for 7 years in the United States Navy. My career was lost due to an unavoidable accident on my way home after duty. I spent many years feeling lost and alone and my struggles with the VA only complicated matters. A lot of that time, I admittedly, was in a pretty dark place and was not making the best decisions. I couldn't find a job that satisfied me and I had a very hard time acclimating back to civilian life, I moved around a lot and struggled as a single parent. Finally after years and years of struggling, I started to do some veteran volunteer work with a couple of different Veteran Service Organizations and saw I wasn't alone, other vets were experiencing the same things and a huge loss of comradery like I was. When you sign you name on the line to serve and give to your Nation, up to and including your life, you join a Brotherhood like no other, it may be what causes such a disconnect with the civilian sector. But, at that point, I knew I wanted to help other veterans get through some of their own struggles and show them their life had hope, they were wanted and needed in society. We need to show our Heroes with real action that there are people that care and there is a safe place to go where you are needed. So, we formed a team, because #wefighttogether, and we set out to make sure #hopeiswortheverypenny. With the main goal of helping the families being destroyed everyday and tirelessly working to end veteran suicide and build families. We need not only individuals but corporations, working together hand in hand to give back to our heroes that sacrificed so much. Sometimes "Thank You" is not enough! We need everyday Americans to put their money where their mouth is and to help. Think of where your life would be without the sacrifice of these brave heroes, It is a very small percentage of the population that protects the majority, it's time to give them a hand up and take care of them when they come home! We can no longer send our heroes to fight our battles and when they come home broken just say thank you. Help us, help them! Tecumseh once said "A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong"

**Winner of the 2020 Rich Kezar Armed Service Veteran of the Year Award

**Winner of the 2021 Chet Sorenson SD Veteran of the Year Award

**Winner of the 2020 Abby Bridge Builder Award (DTOM)

**Winner of the 2021 National Evan Williams: American Made Heroes Award (DTOM)

**Winner of the 2021-2022 National American Legion Auxiliary Care Giver Award

**Featured on Keloland “on the road” 2020

**Featured on Dakota News Now, 2021.

**2022 Featured on Keloland Living

**2022 DTOM winner for the Touchstone Energy Award: Who Powers You

**Post 137 American Legion Commander

** South Dakota State American Legion Membership and Marketing Committee

Mr. Chris Reder and Murphy

Founder MRMS Therapy Program

Dr. Tracy Diefenbach, CCTP

Dr. Tracy Diefenbach grew up on a small farm in Minnesota and joined the Army at age 17. Doc was a crew and gunner on the CH47D and an Army 10-miler runner. After the loss of her Marine Corps husband in 2011 to suicide, she went to school to earn her PhD, and studied learning processes that impact trauma exposure and recovery. She initially founded the D-9 military recovery program and then went on to develop the first MRMS Algorythmic program in the world. Family, loyalty, and commitment to veterans are the foundations of her practice. Doc has trained show-level dressage horses and has taught horses to do mathematical counting and rhythmic motions and gaits that can alter hyperactive brainwaves, thus reducing and eliminating night terrors, reversing dementia, re-establishing balance, and aiding in the healing of other neurological conditions. Her MRMS program has earned her the 2022 National University Systems Alumni of the Year to include other national awards and presentation. Her passion is taking care of all people with disabilities and those, in need. Service to country does not stop once our uniforms are retired….our service to country is only beginning. Her goal is to empower people, teach self-advocacy, and help build our veterans and their families back up where they are successfully re-integrated in theIr communities. Her dream was to open her own MRMS clinic, which was an opportunity given to her by the DTOM 220 Foundation. Since 2020 Doc has created 11 successful programs for veterans and their families.

** 1997 Army Military Superior Performance Award Winner: Active Duty Army

** 2011 Pearson Publishing Award Winner (Brain-based learning concepts)

** 2011 TAICS Tennessee State College Professor of the Year

** National University Systems 2022 Doctoral Alumni of the Year Award

** Winner of the 2022 Rich Kezar Armed Services Veteran of the Year

** Winner of the 2020 Abby Bridge Building Award

** Winner of the 2021-2022 National Care Givers Award

** Winner of the 2021-2022 National ALA Public Spirit Award

** 2022 DTOM Winner of the Touchstone Energy Award

**Columnist for the Aberdeen Insider

Featured on KAX Radio: Psychological Trauma: Remembering

Featured on the Tampa Professor Podcast: Teaching after Trauma

Featured on Sanford‘s Wednesday Education Seminars: Trauma after Combat

Featured on Keloland On the Road

Featured on Dakota News

Featured on Keloland Living

SD State VA&R Committee: 4-year term

MN Emergency Management (FEMA)

ND ADA Disabilities and Employment Council

NPI Practitioner: 1649940115. MRMS Clinician and Research Specialist

AAMFT Member (Military Trauma and Families)