Our Mission
Horses for Hope enables individuals to achieve their full potential using Equine Assisted Activities; promoting wellness, strength, and HOPE in partnership with a HORSE.
The Horses for Hope Vision
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"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford
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"There are no strangers here; only friend you haven't met yet." - William Butler Yeats
Join UsCarmalee Scarpitti
In 2010, seven years after a bad wreck with a drunk driver, Horses for Hope gave me the opportunity to take therapeutic riding (TR) lessons. At that time I could barely walk with 2 crutches. After a year of lessons (and no other PT) I could walk fairly well with only 1 crutch! This was […]
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My son, Raphael, has Down Syndrome is non verbal and had very low muscle tone, but the first day at Horses For Hope he was just another kid climbing on a horse. From the moment he climbed on he was on top of the world, in charge and taller than us for the first time. […]
Continue readingAbbey Zinn
“Therapeutic Riding is great for special needs children because it encourages increased core strength which makes gross motor movements and overall coordination easier. The movement pattern of the horse also encourages improved gait patterns because the movement of the pelvis on a horse mimics the typical movement of walking.” Abbey Zinn, OTR/L Occupational Therapist
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