Horse Camp 2024 is over. We hope everyone had so much fun this year!
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
We strive to build hope, increase self-esteem, and enhance the joy and inspiration for life in all individuals who participate in our programs.
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"There are no strangers here; only friend you haven't met yet." - William Butler Yeats
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“About a week before we started with Horses for Hope she started crawling but just barely and she was still very weak. She has started moving around so much better and actually crawling from room to room! She has started babbling much more and actually trying to make words and responding to questions even if […]
Continue readingTony Roberts
I got involved with Horses for Hope in 2011. I started coming around the barn because I had just started dating Gwen, the founder. Honestly I am a skeptical person by nature and really didn’t understand how horses could help people. One afternoon a little boy around 4 years of age with Down Syndrome came […]
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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