In 2024, Echo Pines Equine, Inc. provided Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Services to 16 families and more than 40 participants. Our services were provided at no cost to the participants.
Echo Pines Equine also visited and hosted programs for the following groups:
-Participated in partnership with the Buhl Regional Health Foundation for our second year at Camp Courage, which is a program to help children and families address grief and loss.
-Hosted classes from Hillview Elementary School and Keystone Charter School and visited Holy Sepulcher Catholic School to conduct programs that reached more than 150 students and staff.
-Hosted an intern from Slippery Rock University.
-Hosted and presented to two social work classes from Grove City College.
-Joined the Grove City College BSW Advisory Council.
-Participated with the Grove City College Project Management Course directed by Dr. John Smith. The project team helped Echo Pines Equine and Tanner’s Trail Equine Obstacle Course research and design an outdoor obstacle course and seek grant opportunities to help fund the project. The team also participated in helping to raise funds to purchase the obstacles. We anticipate opening the obstacle course in June 2025.
-Participated in events at the Grove City YMCA, Plantation Park in Mercer, PA, RAS Outdoors in Saxonburg, PA, the Grove City Agway Pet Fest, and Fair Haven Farms in Grove City, PA.
-Hosted the Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce August quarterly meeting.
-Donated and attended the annual Maple Lane Farm Barn Party fundraising event, which provides funding for local helping agencies.
-Hosted training for the Hope Animal Crisis Response Team to acclimate their crisis dogs to our horses.
-Coordinated donations for two shipments of goods to our local troops deployed to Africa.
-Donated a shipment of hay to Irishtown Acres Farm to be transported to the victims and their animals from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina.
-Provided stress reliever donkeys to Hopefield Children’s Complex in Grove City, PA for their Christmas Program.
Steve continues training and education in Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy through the Natural Lifemanship Institute. He continues to pursue full certification and completed group consultations and a course on working with children and families in 2024.
Echo Pines Equine completed several fundraisers in 2024, including our major event held in September. We are very grateful to the individuals, businesses and volunteers from our community that support our fundraising efforts. We’d like to thank the following major donors for their support:
-The Glen and Jean Harnett Foundation
-The Community Foundation of Eastern Ohio and Western PA
-The Buhl Regional Health Foundation
-Mercer County State Bank
-All Good Things Thrift Shoppe
-Mercer County Women’s Association
-Creekside Cellars Winery
-Cunningham Funeral Home
-Hovis Auto and Truck Supply
-Maple Lane Farm
-RAS Outdoors
-Rick and Kim Gilliland
-Juliannne and Nathan McLallen
-Dan Phillips @ Snap on Tools
-Minor Acres Packing Co.
-Weber Pleasant View Farms, LLC
-Eric Watson, Watson Inc.
-Chris Haines, Lakeview Fertilizer
Echo Pines Equine looks forward to another busy year in 2025 as we continue our mission! We are grateful for the support we receive from our community!
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