Empowering Strides

Join us at the Mariner’s! Jordan Fund has been a great support of us and granted scholarships to some of our riders.

Thank you to Sno-Isle vet tech extern, Reese, who joined the Empowering Strides team for 100 hours over the last couple of months. Reese assisted often with lessons, feeding, vetting, and the many, many barn chores. Reese was able to find a missing horseshoe (as pictured) after we had a team of 6 people searching the pasture for it for over 30 minutes. While regrouping to admit defeat, Reese looked down and found it just on the short grass. We wish Reese the best on her next adventure and look forward to welcoming her back as a volunteer as her schedule allows!

Hippotherapy starts TOMORROW! 🎉

Welcome to our new OT, Erika, who will be at our community partner, Empowering Strides, barn for our new Hippotherapy Program. We're so excited to have her knowledge and joy on our team!

We have spots available for this program, so please give us a call to enroll today! 206-763-0352

Do you know our next unicorn? Please reach out to our executive director, Laura, at [email protected] In exchange for being a unicorn in our adaptive lessons and hippotherapy program, your horse will get regular light work, fantastic care, regular turn out, and receive endless love, affection, treats and kisses from our riders, volunteers and staff. Ideal semi-retirement option! Please spread the word!

Don't worry! Horses are still our specialty. 'Hippo' is the Greek word for 'horse' and we need you to support our new hippotherapy program! In hippotherapy, a licensed therapist (in our case an occupational therapist) uses the horse as a tool in their session to work toward therapy goals. If you are interested in volunteering, you can find the paper work in the upper right quadrant of our website at the below link! Please share and help us spread the word!

https://empoweringstrides.com/volunteer/

We are delighted to announce that longtime volunteer Abby has officially joined Empowering Strides as staff! Abby has been the cornerstone of the Saturday volunteer team since she started volunteering and has donated quite literally hundreds of hours to the program. Over the past few months, she has been working towards her PATH CTRI certification and is joining the team to support our new hippotherapy program. Congratulations, Abby! We are so excited to have you joining the team.

Happy Mother's Day to our favorite Moms, horsey and human!

Join Seattle Therapy Network for The Birds & Bees.

We are excited to host Amy Lang, MA for a virtual presentation: "The Birds & Bees for Caregivers of Neurodivergent Kids". Registration link with more information in bio! Can't make it? Register to receive the recording!