Daily Archives: May 1, 2023


Introduction to Mental Health Month

The month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we at LEAD with Horses are encouraging our staff, volunteers, and the children and families we serve to look closely around and look deep within. From your home, yard, and neighborhood to genetics, many factors come into play when it comes to emerging mental health conditions. We and our Healing Herd encourage everyone to consider how the world around us affects our mental health and overall well-being.

This month we will be exploring how environment affects our state of well-being for both horses AND humans. We will look at how simple changes to our surroundings can make a world of difference in levels of stress, anxiety, or depression. And, of course, we are all more than eager to provide you with what you need to know about how working with our Healing Herd can improve the overall sense of well-being in relationships among family members and with peers and/or co-workers.

At LEAD with Horses, the environment we provide for our herd fosters a healthy and clean-living environment where the horses can be outdoors with lots of room to romp around and play as well as shelter from harsh weather.

As we post information about Mental Health, Horses, and our surroundings, we hope you will be surprised and amazed at how similar the little things are that benefit both horses and humans! You will appreciate knowing how horses also experience mental health conditions of their own and learning that they’re not so different from humans.


Welcome Quest and Red

LEAD with Horses recently welcomed two new horses to our herd:

Image is the profile of a horse's face. Horses is a dark gray. Quest is a lovely 18-year-old Appaloosa. The first thing most people notice is his unusual silver color, called grulla.  Quest is proving to be quite sweet and clever.

Image is of a red colored horse laying down with its face in profile. Red is a 13-year-old Rocky Mountain – the third Rocky Mountain Horse in our herd! (Gina and Lucas are also RM horses) He is a stocky boy who appears to take things slow. His playful nature is coming out now that he is comfortable in his new home.

Both horses have adjusted quickly, have been integrated into the herd, and we hope they will be ready to be part of our summer term. We look forward to seeing what these two lovely horses will offer to our students.

These two will be available to sponsor soon! Watch our horses page for important updates.