Current Projects
Ride 2 Recovery
The DC Velo Outreach Foundation is honored to team up with, Ride 2 Recovery, an organization founded to benefit the mental and physical rehabilitation of wounded veterans featuring cycling as the core activity. Cycling is an important part of the recovery and rehabilitation program for two primary reasons:
1) cycling is an activity that almost all patients with mental and physical disabilities can participate.
2) participation in the Ride 2 Recovery Program helps speed up the recovery and rehabilitation process.
The DC Velo Outreach Foundation will assist Ride 2 Recovery as it initiates, beginning in January 2011, with a cycling and spinning program at the new Bethesda Naval Hospital. Additionally, the DC Velo Outreach Foundation will work with Ride 2 Recovery on two upcoming multi-day ride events; the Memorial Challenge (May 2011) and the 9/11 American Challenge (September 2011). We will post more details and participation opportunities as they are made available. Please, be sure to check out the Ride 2 Recovery site, www.ride2recovery.com, to learn more about the organization and its important work..
First Responders Course
The DC Velo Outreach Foundation, in conjunction with the George Washington University's (GWU) Medical Faculty Associates, Department of Emergency Medicine, hosted a First Responder Course on January 30, 2010 and November 6, 2010. The participants were the DC Velo Cycling Team and several other racing and recreational cycling teams and organizations, representing many Washington DC Metro Region cyclists who use the roads and trails for recreation, transportation/commuting and sport. The purpose of the course is to provide the cyclist/layperson with enough first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge to "respond" if a cyclist is experiencing a medical emergency, before emergency medical personnel have arrived on the scene.
While the course does not take the place of the more in-depth or rigorous training given in a standardized CPR and First Aid Certification Course, the course covers: "hands only" CPR; how to make a sling with a bandana and a few safety pins; how to clean road rash (an abrasion); how to roll a person over into a recovery position; when not to move a person; and what to carry in a seat pack to treat allergic reactions to stings or bites, to name a few.
If you want more information about the Course, and/or are interested in having The Foundation and GWU's faculty provide a course for your cycling organization, please contact the Foundation directly on our contact page. There is a nominal fee for the presentation.
