White Bridle Humane Society is a 501(c) 3 tax-exempt, non-profit corporation that was originally created to address the special needs of horses but has now broadened its scope to include community outreach programs for children with our horses.
The mission of White Bridle Humane Society is to reach out to our community and provide valuable service. We rescue horses in need and find good, loving homes for some of them and use the others for our wonderful equine assisted therapy program.
Who We Are:
Our program is excellent for all children and has both therapeutic and recreational benefits.
The greatest number of our program participants are children on the autism spectrum. There are more children diagnosed with autism every day than the combined totals of those diagnosed with diabetes, cancer, and AIDS combined; and we’re poised to provide some of the therapies that they would receive in a doctor’s office in a more fun environment.
Many of these children connect with horses, so the benefits of our program are greater for these special kids.
We’ve created volunteer opportunities for children as young as 11 years old to act as peers for our special needs program children, so our equine assisted therapy program serves more than the special needs children.
Our focus in 2010 is to move our program to Grand Prairie, an under served area, that truly needs a program like ours. We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be using Mike Lewis Park (near the intersection of Toll Road 161 and I-30) for our program this summer and hope to announce a location for our facility in Grand Prairie later this year.
Last year, we brought in five horses; three were minis that came from a personal donation from the Cystic Fibrosis Society’s fund raiser and silent auction. The fourth horse had been hit by a truck, and we rehabilitated him and found a forever home for him. The fifth horse, another mini, turned out to be a trained cart driving horse who’s excellent. All four of the rescued minis have received additional training and are now part of our equine assisted therapy program.
