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The CoServ Charitable Foundation recently approved a grant for one of our most noble community causes, the Ziggy is the newest addition to the SpiritHorse family, and he will soon be doing his part in bringing smiles, mobility, confidence and improved communication skills to children who come to SpiritHorse seeking developmental and/or emotional healing. SpiritHorse is a center that provides free therapeutic horseback riding services to 450 children and adults from ten counties in the DFW Metroplex each week at facilities in
Here in the heart of CoServ’s service territory is the largest facility in America that provides all private therapeutic horseback riding services free of charge for multiple programs: Disabilities, Children who are Victims of Abuse/Violence, At-Risk-Youth, Battered Women, and Youth After-Drug Rehab. The center provides educational services in the form of therapeutic riding to disabled children with some of the most pervasive developmental disorders, specifically autism. In fact, SpiritHorse currently serves more children than any center in the world.
Charles I. Fletcher (lovingly known to the children as “Mr. Charles”) is the Founder and Board President of SpiritHorse. He states that the center is one of the few actual equine-assistance healthcare facilities in the country. SpiritHorse is currently partnering with
“In a little more than five years of operation, we have joyously heard 38 children speak their first word on one of our ponies, witnessed 28 children walk for the first time (many of whom medical professionals considered hopeless), and watc
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