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BRINGING HAPPINESS, HOPE AND WELLBEING THROUGH THE USE OF MINIATURE HORSES

Mission

Lifting Spirits Miniature Therapy Horses mission is to provide mobile equine assisted activity services to children and adults of all ages and abilities. Research has shown that equine therapy has positive mental, social,
educational, spiritual and physical benefits. We use our own trained miniature horses, to bring happiness, hope, and a sense of wellbeing to men, women and children of all ages and needs.


Winston featured on
Chronicle WCVB TV Channel 5 Boston

Our therapy minis Peaches and Idaho featured on
Boston Fox 25 News

About Us

We visit all age groups, young to old, with all types of disabilities and needs. We try to never turn away anyone or facility that contacts us.
We have volunteers that help with our visits and are always working on new programs to expand our reach.

We are a federally recognized 501c3. As a nonprofit organization, we rely solely on donations, grants, sponsorships and fundraising to carry out our mission.
100% of funds received go directly into our miniature horses for rescuing, training, horse care and supplies. The biggest challenge we face is maintaining
the funds to support outreach to all the communities that can benefit from our unique therapy programs. Larger grants and donations allow us to focus our efforts
on scheduling and conducting visits, and have the biggest impact on the communities around us.

Horse care is expensive, so we aim to translate our fundraising requests into real services. For example, $100 can feed and care for one of our horses for a month, and
$300 can provide an hour long visit to a local nursing home, veterans center, children’s hospital or school. The more visits we can do, the more people’s lives we can touch.

Lifting Spirits offers so much more than traditional animal therapy. In addition to medically-related visits to nursing homes, hospitals and VAs, we participate in:
• Just Say Whoa® to Bullying (a national program aimed at teaching children to be upstanders to bullying, not bystanders);
• Horse Powered Reading® (a literacy program for children and adults);
• Valor (partnerships with local law enforcement to engage with citizens in a positive way); and
• A veterans program coming in 2024

Some of the over 150 facilities we have visited and work with:

Tufts/Lowell General Hospital

Landmark Hospital

Lawrence Boys & Girls Club

Soldiers Home, Chelsea Ma

Curry College, Milton Ma

Anna Maria College, Paxton Ma

Beebee School, Malden

Cambridge Public Libraries

Plummer Youth Center, Salem MA

Keough Memorial Academy, Bellingham

Morrison Cultural Arts School, Braintree

Windsor Nursing Home

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)

Windrose at Woburn

Edgewood Lifecare Community

Life Care Centers of America

Bayberry at Emerald Court, a Northbridge
Senior Living Community

Seasons of Danvers

Avita of Newburyport

New England Homes for the Deaf

Walden Behavioral Care

Compass on the Bay

Standish Village

Windrose, Wheymouth

Carleton Willard Village

Goddard House

Wingate Residences, Haverhill

Belmont Council on Aging

Colonial Gardens, Beverly

Cornerstone at Canton

Ronald McDonald Houses, Boston, Providence

Reading Public Library

Wilmington Public Library

Memorial Hall Library

New England Pediatric Care

Professional Center for Child Development

Seven Hills Pediatric Center

Melmark New England

American Training, Andover MA

Golden Hill Elementary School

Highplain Elementary School

Alavesta School K-5

Girl Scouts and Daisey Troops


How We Serve our Community

We currently serve over 100 nursing homes, Alzheimer Units, children’s hospitals, medical centers, schools, and Assisted Living centers on a regular basis.
Visits, which go from April through October, last approximately one hour, and each facility plans these visits based on their individual needs.

During the school year, we bring our miniature therapy horses to participate in school functions that aim at lowering student stress, and encouraging dialog
between the teachers, counselors and students they serve. For example, we have visited the Reading Public Library during Exam Cram Night.
We also visit with Golden Hill Elementary in Haverhill, MA with six special needs classes where the children interact with the horses
and work on building certain skills.

We are excited to be making visits to Soldiers Home in Chelsea, MA so that the veterans can meet our little horses and experience their wonderful benefits.
My father, a Marine Veteran who served this country, taught me to always give back to the community, so this is something very dear to my heart.