ManpowertoHorsepower

Sue Roberson, Director 

  610 Performance Road, Mooresville, NC 28115

704-664-1674  sroberson@manpowertohorsepower.org

2011 Updates

Welcome Home Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines

For too long we as Americans have watched our Vets suffer.
For too long we have seen our champions used as window dressing for any popular political movement.

Too many times we have seen our fighting men and women, our protectors, our heroes,
propped up in front of a camera for some so-called charitable agency to say, “Look at us. We’re helping Veterans!”

Only to forget those brave and all too often broken men and women still exist the when the camera goes dark.

Those of us at Manpower To Horsepower have decided it is time to take a stand.

It is time to take action. It is time to prove to those broken combatants that they are not beyond repair.
That the time to stop fighting may yet come, but it is not today.

We will prove to them there are still people that care about their plight and grateful for the sacrifices they have made.
Not for glory, fame, or political expediency, but because we care enough to make them whole again.

We are not Republicans. We are not Democrats. We are Americans.

We have not forgotten that wounded warriors are our fellow Americans.

They have given more of themselves in service to us than most can imagine.

Now it is their time of need.

It is time for us to stand for those that have stood for us.


Welcome to rehabilitation racing style.

Emmett Thomas U.S. Army

Mission:

Manpower To Horsepower is a non-profit organization meeting the transitional needs of post-combat veterans.

The organization creates an atmosphere of mentoring, friendship and rehabilitation through the sport of racing.

Our rehabilitation center serves not only as a full service, hands on rehabilitation facility but a center where veterans can work together and receive a different type of therapy to help them regain acclimation back into a productive society from post-combat stress and injury while affording them real life racing exposure both at the shop and the tracks.  We stress family values and family involvement and commitment to help heal the families.

Media Release (please go to Manpower website for links):
Chrome TV filming MP2HP School Vets Street Rod Build
MP2HP School Vets Going to ARCA Southern Illinois 100
Mooresville Weekly - "Race Shop Gives Back to War Veterans" - 19 AUG
Mooresville Tribune - "Vets Go from Manpower to Horsepower" - 13 AUG
MP2HP at National Night Out, Mooresville NC Tuesday 2 AUG
Camp Lejeune Globe -Manpower to Horsepower gives wounded vets their lives back
"One Shirt Across America" Supports "Veterans Hope"
Safety-Kleen Supports U.S. Veterans through Innovative Auto Racing Program
Salisbury Post - MP2HP and RCCC Offers Motor Sports-Management Training for Veterans
Sue Roberson appointed Advisor to Armed Forces Racing
MP2HP Partners with Armed Forces Racing
Eldora - "Prelude to the Dream" - MP2HP "Dream" Car Pics
Richard's Coffee Shop - Memorial Day - "Ride Of Pride" picture gallery
Tommy Baldwin Racing - Darlington Sprint Cup Press Release - Supports MP2HP and DAV
NEWS 14 Carolina - Program revs up for disabled veterans to work again
Tommy Baldwin Racing Teams Up with Manpower To Horsepower
Sen. Kay Hagan Sponsors Legislation for Vets - "Hire a Hero"
Mooresville News - Program Keeps Racers Helping Veterans
RCCC in Partnership with SMP Motorsports Offers Motorsports Program for Disabled Veterans
SPEED Network - College Offers Racing For Veterans
USO of NC Collaborates with Manpower to Horsepower
WSOC TV – “MP2HP Program Makes Race Cars Accessible For Disabled Veterans”
CLT OBSERVER - “Riding shotgun in a dirt-track car? “Priceless”
John Falkenbury, President and COO for the USO of NC, addresses the press on media day at Carolina Speedway
WGNC "Red Clay Tuesdays" - Live - Podcasts
Manpower to Horsepower Event Photos

 Other programs:

 We have enhanced our program to involve adaptive water sports programs that are under development for implementation in the latter part of 2011 in our Treasure Island, FL, location. Kim Barreda is setting up our full winter sports program in Whitefish, MT, in time for this winter's skiing season. Water sports will include a wide variety of sensory experiences including adaptive water skis, boogie boards, waverunners, boating, swimming, snorkeling, water blankets, and other sports as we add to our base. We are actively pursing acquisition of hotels for our first adaptive resort.

June 10, 2010

Vets-Help is pleased to announce a change to our recent initiative “The Stand Up and Play Challenge”. We are working with new partners and have expanded our whole adaptive sports programs. The scope is now encompassing many other sports, both extreme and tame, and we are holding meetings this month to confirm new venues that will be exclusive to Vets-Help and their partners. We are initiating the program here in the USA in 2010, beginning in New York and Florida and expanding throughout the United States, where traumatically injured veterans and other disabled people are encouraged to learn to work through their disability to participate in sports supervised by specially trained teachers.

We are working in several areas, the first including our golf program with special wheelchairs especially designed to allow certain disabled people to literally stand up. There are many health benefits besides the tremendous emotional lift of being outside and developing a new hobby. They include easing circulation problems and sores, strengthening the muscles otherwise not being used, deterring limb atrophy, and resisting bone related issues due to non-use. The wheelchair can also be used for work-related activities, so the user is not confined to just one level, but can stand and work as well.

Look for announcements with new partnerships that are in the works.