Warrior Canine Connection

Warrior Canine Connection is a pioneering organization that utilizes clinically based Canine Connection Therapy to help wounded Warriors reconnect with life, their families, their communities, and each other.

The organization enlists recovering Warriors in a therapeutic mission of learning to train service dogs for their fellow Veterans.
Our family was humbled recently to learn that the organization has named a puppy in the 2015 Gratitude Litter for Casey.
Check out their website here and especially visit the live puppy cam while you are there.

Casey is the puppy at the far right with a black collar.

The Gratitude Litter is on Facebook! Follow them here to keep up with their activities and progress. Log into your account (or create a new one) and ‘Like’ their page. Don’t forget the Puppy Cam!

Enabled Enterprises is a veteran-owned business that strives to be a model for empowering through providing opportunities for independence and success. The company is basing its growth on the belief that veterans, when given a chance, have unending possibilities. ‘We recognize veterans as an incredible national resource’.

October, 2016
Comment from Larry Spatz, Enabled Enterprises co-founder:

Janna, myself and all who loved Casey send our prayers to you and your family. I want you to know that Enabled Enterprises which he, Adam McCabe and I founded is doing important clinical trials with our medical technology for the treatment and prevention of TBI and PTSD. We are doing this in partnership with the DoD and VA in honor of and because of Casey. Our dream is that this technology will change the lives of our veterans who gave so much and suffer so much. It will also be Casey’s legacy. Casey continues to bless us.

Love and blessings, Larry

March 11, 2018
Comment from Larry Spatz, Enabled Enterprises co-founder:

Casey and I founded Enabled Enterprises to help veterans with business opportunities and medical technology.  This company now has partners that include a General, West Point graduated Colonels and Rear Admiral.  We are doing clinical trials to treat TBI and PTSD  with our medical phototherapy technology.   We have also developed a wearable device to treat pain.    All of this effort is a result of Casey’s commitment to his comrades.  God bless you, friend.
Love and blessings, Larry

The Western Slope Veterans Coalition – In the summer of 2013, a group of Veterans from the Roaring Fork and Colorado River valleys banded together to assist fellow Veterans. Conversations ensued about the need to increase coordination and resources in support of those with military experience.

From the work of this committed group of individuals (all volunteers) throughout the Roaring Fork and Eagle valleys, the Western Slope Veterans Coalition was born. WSVC is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3).

Today, the Western Slope Veterans Coalition (WSVC) provides a hub for the information, action, programs and activities that support, honor and connect veterans in the Roaring Fork and Eagle valleys.

The Coalition is an organization supported by and open to all citizens, organizations and businesses that support veterans. The WSVC holds quarterly meetings and events, provides a forum for information sharing, best practices and the coordination of resources for Veterans.

On the occasion of Veteran’s Day, 2017, The Western Slopes Veterans Coalition dedicated their new facility to Jesse Beckius and Casey Owens, both injured Marines who came home, tried to make new lives in the civilian workplace and then, tragically, ended their own lives. It was a beautiful and emotional ceremony to dedicate the center in Glenwood Springs. A tremendous crowd of patriots came to celebrate this dedication as well as the USMC birthday. Thank you to the entire Glenwood Springs/Aspen community of Veterans and supporters!

Impact a Hero opens new office in Texas
Comment by Janna Owens Dunkel

Yesterday, March 22, 2018, IMPACT A HERO had their open house and dedication ceremony for their new office in Spring, Texas, north of Houston. Casey’s sister, Lezleigh and I attended and were very honored. It is a lovely office and Impact will continue to do great things for our veterans. Thank you to each and everyone who dedicate so much time and energy for this great cause. We have been part of the Impact a Hero family for 14 years. We encourage everyone to continue to support them.

WSVC’s 1st Anniversary, Veteran’s Day 2018 and the Marine’s 243rd birthday – all in one! To mark the Western Slopes Veterans Coalition’s first anniversary of the Glenwood Springs office, Veteran’s Day 2018 and the Marine Corps’ 243rd birthday, Casey’s mother, Janna, his sister, Lezleigh, his brother, Michael and Harold The Wonder Dog were invited to attend and share the occasion. The event was well-attended, the speeches were inspiring and the food and fellowship were beyond compare.

This year’s agenda.