Give the Gift of Giving
through Animal Therapy
The ZOE Home for Youth Barn Project stands as a testament
to ZOE’s unwavering dedication to pioneering innovative restoration programs. This groundbreaking initiative is centered on
harnessing the power of animal therapy to aid young survivors, aged 12 to 17,
who have tragically endured the horrors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
Sexual trauma, childhood abuse, assault, and other
traumatizing incidents that our youth experience have many negative consequences. Youth lose their sense of control, and
self-efficacy, they develop post traumatic stress and mental health problems
and they learn to protect themselves from their hurts by shoving their
emotions. The power of equine therapy
provides opportunity for these effects of trauma to slowly fade away and begin
to uncover blocked emotions, allowing youth to process and heal from past
hurts.
The initial investment encompasses the barn’s structural framework and the following features: