My Nonprofit Reviews

I just cannot express the love I have for ROSES on so many levels. I meet Joan when she allowed me to volunteer at her barn and spent time with her horses. The horses and the quiet environment was so therapeutic at a time in my life when stress levels were high. Life circumstances pulled me way from being able to volunteer, but God knew my heart and put ROSES back in my life when a friend I was helping with a brain injury began attending ROSES and I was driving her to her sessions. God found a way to fit ROSES into my life a handful of times in the past 8 years. Whenever I was there, it was to help ROSES but somehow I always left feeling like I was taking more from the experiences then I was able to give back. Now I have the privilege to take a few of my autistic students (I am an OT at school for children with autism) to ROSES each year and the love they show for the horses and the progress they show through the 8 weeks is always amazing and touching!! They display skills and abilities I dont see in the school environment and they seem to open up and let down their guards in a way I have never seen. I always leave smiling, trying to memorize the way the students engages in ROSES environment and always looking forward to see what the next visit holds! I cant not say enough about ROSES- the therapeutic environment, the amazing horses, Joan's obvious passion for her occupation, her caring for every individual that walks in the door on top of her knowledge and therapeutic use of self- being apart of ROSES is life changing!

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