GENTLE CAROUSEL INCORPORATED

Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses work with medical professionals in oncology units, intensive care units, and with occupational, speech and physical therapists as part of the treatment for patients who have suffered strokes, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, amputations and burns. Gentle Carousel Miniature Therapy Horses is unique. There is no other equine program offering this level of engagement, connection and compassion with the children and adults served.

The therapy horses are called in to comfort survivors and first responders of traumatic events like the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL. They helped the tornado survivors of Moore, OK, victims of the fires in Gatlinburg, TN, families in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and visit thousands of patients in children's and veterans’ hospitals across the country each year.

Gentle Carousel’s literacy program Reading Is Magic inspires young readers and “brings books to life”. The therapy horses of Gentle Carousel’s Reading Is Magic work inside schools, libraries, with mentoring programs, at literacy events and at education resource centers in high crime neighborhoods with first responders. The program has a special focus on at-risk readers.