Community Programs
A core part of our purpose is offering a place for our community to be with animals, learn about and participate in their care, enjoy being outdoors with hands-on interaction, gain understanding of animal rescue and welfare, experience the companionship and therapeutic value animals bring, and enjoy a sense of purpose and community involvement.
Join us in supporting animals!
Donate a gift, supplies, or volunteer anytime! Click here.
Email sharlene@gracelandmeadows.org to discuss a group visit or a specific idea.
We’re excited to grow our community and get creative about what your involvement looks like. While meeting the animals, maybe … an animal art hour, paint or draw our critters, music, dance, a workshop, equine therapy.
Schools
- Outside — off devices — Fun!!!
- Care for animals while developing life skills, work experience, teamwork, and achieving community service and college requirements
- Student club visits
- Animal art
- Leadership opportunities — from hands-on care to leading projects such as community outreach, fund/supply drives, volunteer-building
- Field Trips - for example, meet the animals, how to feed and groom, meet our vets and horse farriers, learn about careers with animals
- Carry forward appreciation and advocacy for animals into your personal and professional futures
Special Needs Community
- Hands-on feeding, grooming, care for animals
- Meaningful interactions and connectedness with animals (most with special needs themselves, and their own stories of adversity and challenges)
- Develop life skills, responsibility, experience, teamwork
- Inclusion, recreation, learning, and volunteerism / community service
- Equine Therapy - led by a professional
- Leadership opportunities — from animal care to leading projects such as community outreach, fund/supply drives, volunteer-building
- Visits - based on interest we can meet and care for the animals, meet our vets and horse farriers, learn about careers and working with animals, art day with the animals - come to paint or draw!
Seniors
- Enjoy a sense of purpose and community involvement
- Enhance quality of life with connectedness
- We can help exercise and play with your dog in our fully-fenced dog run
- Volunteer hands-on feeding or grooming - or we can pair a seniors/ students visit - where seniors can enjoy time with the animals & the kids doing community service
- Leadership opportunities such as community outreach, fund/supply drives, volunteer-building
- Senior Outings - meet the animals, how to feed and care, meet our vets and horse farriers, art day with the animals - come to paint or draw
- Equine Therapy - led by a professional
- Educate us - Calling Seniors with animal specialties to share experiences and teach us at Graceland Meadows!