Seen Through Horses Campaign – launching May 1-31, 2023 – Mental Health Awareness Month.
HAPI Trails invites you to join the Seen Through Horses Campaign and become a fundraising participant.
Driggs, Id – April 18, 2023 — Horses can make a much-needed difference for the mental health challenges so many in our world face. Our mission is to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, abandoned, and neglected horses.
HAPI Trails Board Chair and Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Jen Carter, maintains a partnership with the Idaho Veterans Affairs Clinic to provide streamlined, easily accessible, mental health services to local and regional Veterans. We also accepted client referrals from the Teton Valley Mental Health Coalition, Teton Valley Health, and the Family Safety Network, as well as providing services for various Employee Assistance Programs, church, and youth groups.
HAPI Trails is among 65 nonprofit organizations convening as benefactors in the Seen Through Horse Campaign, a peer-to-peer campaign launching May 1-31, 2023 to raise funds and improve access to mental health services and programs incorporating horses.
The Seen Through Horses opportunity was brought to our attention by past Board Member, Cat Caldwell Meyers, who has expanded her own work with horses at her home in Connecticut. She thought this might be a good fit for HAPI Trails, and we are pleased did. We’ve been looking for ways to expand our EAP programming, but with limited time, awareness, and funding, it just hasn’t been possible.
“It seemed like the perfect opportunity to share with our community how horses can be incorporated into various human health and wellness services. We needed the support that Horses for Mental Health and the Seen Through Horses program is providing – from marketing and communications to sponsorship and national awareness.” – Julie Martin, ED
Donations raised will directly go towards impacting our organization, programs, and services including, establishing multi-day workshops to help create connections for individuals, building confidence for kids, supporting Veterans, and empowering women.
As we galvanize the equine and mental health sectors around one goal, we encourage you to choose HAPI Trails to support before and during the campaign, May 1-31, 2023 by https://www.classy.org/team/489266, and setting a fundraising goal or making a one-time donation.
Together we can make a bigger impact fundraising together than if it were done alone.
About HAPI Trails Horses Adoption Program, Inc.
Our mission is to provide a happy, healthy, and nurturing environment for abused, abandoned and neglected horses. We are 100% volunteer and dedicated to rehabilitating and re-homing these horses into loving, compassionate, and permanent home, enhancing the life of the horse as well as the new owners.
As one aspect of our programing, The Equine Assisted Coaching program gives us an opportunity to help with our communities and our horses’ well-being. Equine Assisted Coaching is proven to work for individuals, families or groups to broaden peoples outlook on life, and grow in new directions with new opportunities.
About Seen Through Horses
Seen Through Horses is a peer-to-peer campaign composed of individuals, nonprofits, mental health professionals, influencers, and businesses to increase awareness, public engagement, and raise funds to improve access to programs incorporating horses for mental health and personal growth. Horses can make a much-needed difference for the mental health challenges so many in our world face. Seen Through Horses aims to convene a community, empower nonprofits, and share stories of transformation to illustrate the positive impacts of incorporating horses into mental health services and programs.
The campaign is composed of mental health and equine professionals who have dedicated their lives to supporting both horses and humans. Seen Through Horses Campaign is made possible by our Premier Sponsor, Zoetis, and executive produced by Horses for Mental Health, Equine Network and Arenas for Change (ARCH). In addition to our premier sponsor and producers, premier partners supporting the campaign also include, the American Horse Council, American Psychological Association’s Section on Human Animal Interaction (APA HAI), Black in the Saddle, EQUUS Films & Arts, Horses & Humans Research Foundation, Institute for Human-Animal Connection, PATH International, Polyvagal Equine Institute, Natural Lifemanship, Temple Grandin Equine Center (CSU), and The HERD Institute.
As we galvanize the equine and mental health sectors around one message, espoused at the same time, we encourage you to choose a nonprofit organization to support from May 1-31, 2023 by visiting www.horsesformentalhealth.org/campaign.
