News & Updates
Feb 2009
Click here to read the recent article about SpiritHorse in 'Sunday
on the Farm'
Dec 2008
Texas Nonprofits, the most significant nonprofit portal in Texas, publishes article entitled “Real Horsepower: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism”, which is about the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Study at SpiritHorse.
Click here to view.
Sep 26 2008
The
Dario Sala 2008 Soccer Clinic was held at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco
TX.
May 3 2008
Thank you to all that made the 2008 Fiesta an enormous success and to the generous donors and sponsors.
Aug 2007
Texas Nonprofits, the most significant nonprofit portal in
Texas, has chosen to write an article about SpiritHorse.
Click here to view this moving article!
Feb 2007
Fox 4's medical reporter, John Hammarley reports on how horses help
children.
Click to view this news clip...
Jan 2007
SpiritHorse is featured on Channel 8, WFAA. It was a follow
up to the 2006 Dreamers, Doers, and Unsung Heroes Award.
Click here to watch the live video feed...
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Purchase individual tickets or sponsor a table and get in on the fun while you support SpiritHorse! Contact Michele at 940-497-2946 or michele@spirithorsetherapy.com to purchase tickets or tables or for more information. Purchase tickets online by clicking here. Children 5 and under are free. |
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SpiritHorse recently graduated 52 participants! Congratulations to all of our riders who have come so far! |
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Calling all Golfers – Tee-Off to Help SpiritHorse! The 5th Annual CoServ Charitable Foundation Golf Tournament is coming! Monday, June 1, 2009, at Lantana Golf Club is your chance to play for a great cause. Whether you decide to participate as an individual or provide a group sponsorship with friends of co-workers, you'll be supporting SpiritHorse and having a great time! Registration, driving range practice, and breakfast will all start at 7 a.m., and the tournament begins at 8 a.m.. with a shot gun start. Deadline for entry is April 30. For more information, please contact Terri Jeter at 940-321-7859 or Jim Chism at 940-321-7801. |
SpiritHorse is going global!
SpiritHorse is happy to announce that we have just licensed a therapeutic riding center in Penhook, Virginia. After learning about SpiritHorse through our website, founder Heather Thomas and mother, Shelly Thomas, traveled to our facilities in Corinth, Texas, where they received intensive training from Charles Fletcher, Founder/CEO, and the SpiritHorse staff to become certified equine-assisted healthcare instructors. They also attended a presentation from the University of North Texas outlining the SpiritHorse language curriculum. “I thought it was amazing, the bond between the child and the horse,” Heather said in reflection of her training at SpiritHorse, Texas. “It was probably the most amazing experience I've ever had in my life, to work with those kids and see the progress they made.”
On opening day of SpiritHorse, Virginia, it was 33 degrees and pouring rain, yet the center still signed up 15 children with disabilities – and 20 more in the following days!
In addition to licensing SpiritHorse, Virginia, Mr. Fletcher will travel to the Czech Republic this coming July and hold a clinic to develop SpiritHorse programs there. On the very day the notice of this clinic went out, it was filled to capacity with therapeutic riding instructors from all over the Czech Republic! The SpiritHorse training manual is currently being translated.
In order to be licensed by SpiritHorse, a therapeutic riding center must meet several requirements, including:
- All services must be available free of charge.
- Personnel must be trained and certified as equine-assisted healthcare instructors by SpiritHorse, Texas.
- SpiritHorse methods and curriculums must be followed exactly.
About SpiritHorse
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Our Mission: To Assist Individuals with Special Needs in
Reaching their Full Potential through Interaction with Horses |
We are unique in that SpiritHorse is the only center in America that provides all private therapeutic horseback riding services free to people with disabilities, children who are victims of abuse, at-risk-youth, youth after drug-rehab and battered women. We currently serve over 450 children and adults FREE OF CHARGE, more than any center in the world. One hundred-sixty of these children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
In five years of operation, we have heard 45 children speak the first word of their lives, helped 38 children walk their first steps, and 30 sit up for the first time.
Please support our cause!
Our most immediate need is raising money to sustain our free programs. You can make a difference by making a donation now through any of our giving programs.
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