HorseSensing

12/03/2024

Patrick got certified as an HorseSensing Groom Elite Groom on Sunday! Patrick came to us with no experience with horses and a hard bottom with substances. He is doing great in his recovery and in his horse career now and has a great job at Westbrook Stables! He has a path for permanent change that was possible through the wrap around support here at HorseSensing.

12/03/2024

Good Morning, today is Giving Tuesday. Would you consider helping HorseSensing save lives today? A donation of any amount helps. To know more about what we do, watch this video that captures the impact so well. If you have a loved one who is a veteran who may have had a hard time transitioning after serving, or someone close to you who has battled addiction, you know how tough these struggles can be. Life and death. You can help us help them. Thank you.

This video is part of the FEI Ride series. This is episode 8 from Season 4.This shows what the HorseSensing Residential Therapeutic Job Training is all about...

12/02/2024

Tomorrow is Consider donating to HorseSensing and saving a life. That is seriously what it comes down to, what we do here. By giving someone a true opportunity to permanently, change their life and leave addiction behind. That’s what we call saving a life. And that’s not even counting the ripple effects of their kids and future generations that won’t have to be raised by an addicted parent. Or an absent parent that died of the disease of addiction. Click here to https://givebutter.com/4bYfRK

12/01/2024

Treatment centers are most often a revolving door. Folks with substance and mental health issues come in for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, leave and go back to their environment that was unhealthy for them with no plan, same friends, no purpose and no definitive path to staying clean and sober for the long run. HorseSensing is different. Veterans and men in recovery that come here stay for at least 9 months, get a new support structure that includes a new career, new peer group (friends),mentors, doctoral level psychotherapy, group therapy, recovery meetings and constant equine therapy-all providing Hope, Purpose and a Sense of Belonging. This is a permanent path of sobriety, clarity, self respect and a place in society.
HorseSensing is totally free-we don't take medicaid or insurance. We rely on grants and individual donors like you to provide this quality of care.
If you have ever had a family member ravaged by addiction you know how painful it is-you may have lost someone to substances or mental illness.
Please consider helping us to continue our mission. Click on our Give Butter page below. Thank you

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11/28/2024

11/13/2024

All are invited to HorseSensing's Holiday Party! Country ham door prize raffle(free)!
Bring your favorite holiday dish. December 14th 2pm to 4:30
HorseSensing is located at 270 Bagdad Road, Shelbyville, Ky 40065

11/11/2024

Today and every day, honoring all who served. Thank you for your service.

11/11/2024

Yesterday was SO special! Justin Sweet was certified as an HS Groom Elite Groom. This has to be one of our favorite certifications ever. Justin has come so far and overcome so much to get to where he is today. As he said yesterday, “My mom has her son back and my sister has her brother back” and now the Show Horse industry has a top notch groom, ground man, c**t man in Justin. It is a tradition that we all say something to the person getting certified and we all had a lot to say about Justin. Wendy had the most to say. Wendy sparked the fire in this young man and he ran with it. Justin broke a two-year old with Wendy’s guidance, Showed a 2 year old and helped get many weanlings and older futurity babies in the ring to wins at the Tennessee Futurity with Wendy (and Patrick) not long ago. Thank you Wendy!!
Justin got a little (or a lot) emotional when it was time to come up and get his certificate. We are all so proud of him. Thank you Tina for taking great photos to capture the occasion!

11/08/2024

Thank you Shelbyville Sentinel-News for including us on page 2 this week! Our Recovery Unity Day was super important for us and we thank all those who came out and the agencies that had resource tables too! We especially thank Roland Williams form coming and sharing his story of recovery with us. What a powerful message of hope!

HorseSensing held their 3rd annual Recovery Unity Day on Saturday, Oct. 26. It took place on their 30 acre farm with 12 step meetings on the hour starting at 10

11/07/2024

HorseSensing has just earned our Guidestar 2024 Platinum Transparency Seal!
Once again reassuring donors that we are a good place to support as we come to the end of the year! Thank you to all who have supported our work here with veterans, people in recovery, gold star families and first responders!

11/06/2024

HorseSensing is proud to be a USEF Community Outreach Organization for the past 3 years! This is Opportunity Week and folks can donate to the USEF Opportunity Fund. Community Outreach Organizations can apply for grants from this fund. We are grateful to have applied twice and been approved twice. Consider supporting these great organizations, including us, doing great work with horses!
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11/03/2024

I wanted to let you guys know about a really cool thing that is happening at HorseSensing. One of our farriers, Jared Charles, was out shoeing and trimming several horses here one day. He asked if any of our guys would like to learn about being a farrier. One of our guys, John, stepped right up and Jared handed him some shoeing chaps to put on and for the rest of the day he assisted him with all the horses. At the end of the day Jared asked him if he would seriously like to pursue being a farrier. John was very excited and answered yes. Since that time he has accompanied Jared in the truck and has been learning the skills needed to be a farrier. This is another opportunity that came out of being a resident here at HorseSensing and the generosity of one of our horse care team. Jared has said that to successfully pursue being a farrier, an apprentice needs to study under a farrier for 4 years 5 days per week to truly master the skills to go out on their own. John has been going out with Jared for more than a month now and is on his way! We are so thankful to Jared for giving one of our guys an opportunity like this!

11/01/2024

In case you missed it here is an interview with Chris Carl, our Education Director here. He is speaking with WHAS channel 11. Chris went through the program here in 2022 and excelled and is now teaching the other guys coming through. what a role model!

10/25/2024

Are you in recovery? Tomorrow you should join us here at HorseSensing for our Recovery unity day! We have 12 step meetings beginning at 10 AM free hamburger and hotdog lunch and free spaghetti dinner at 6 PM followed by a fantastic speaker at 6:30 and a DJ dance after that! All in our horse barn! 270 Bagdad Rd., Shelbyville

10/24/2024

Hey folks, this free event is coming up this Saturday from 10 in the morning all the way through into the evening. If you are In Recovery , please come and have a great time! If you are familiar with the NA basic text, our speaker is one of the stories in the book. He speaks at 6:30 followed by a DJ dance done by the one and only John Hawkins! free spaghetti, dinner and free lunch! Can’t beat that and it all takes place in our horse barn! If you are at an agency that’s related to Recovery and want to have a resource table at this event call us at the number on the flyer. See you Saturday! 270 Bagdad Rd. Shelbyville, Ky 40065