Hope for Hooves Rescue
Rescue, Rehabilitate, Restore, Rebuild
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Mission
WE OFFER HOPE TO OUR HORSES AND OUR HORSES OFFER HOPE TO HUMANS. Hope for Hooves Rescue exists to rescue and rehabilitate equines and help restore faith and rebuild broken spirits in children.
Ruling year
2020
Founder/CEO
Michelle Derrick
Main address
45 Van Rd
North Augusta, SC 29860 USA
EIN
84-4317694
NTEE code
Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation (E86)
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Numbers from the SC Department of Social Services show in 2022 there were 508 substantiated cases of child abuse. Nearly half of those were children 6-years-old or younger. According to a report from the state department of education, SC schools reported 1,375 instances of bullying during the 2019-20 academic year. Students indicated that bullying had a negative effect on how they feel about themselves. Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in SC. Every day two people die by suicide, nine visit the Emergency Department, and five are admitted to the hospital for intentional self-harm injuries. SC ranks 18th in teen suicides ages 12-19. These are just a few of the issues we see happening in the lives of children and youth in our society.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Equine-assisted Mentorship
Our one-on-one Mentorship Program exists to help children who are hurting by encouraging a healthy relationship between a child and one of our highly qualified mentors. Whether the hurt may have been caused from trauma, abuse, bullying, the loss of a loved one, or something else, our hearts desire is to provide a safe haven for the children and their families to begin to find hope and to discover inner healing while developing a relationship with Jesus Christ. This is done with the use of our rescued horses and other farm animals. They provide the emotional support, while the farm offers a wide variety of social activities.
Reading to the Rescues
Our reading program is designed to help children in K-5-5th grade develop their literacy skills by reading to one of our therapy rescue horses or any other farm animal of their choice. The benefits of reading to our rescues also helps boost self-confidence, increase vocabulary, build self-esteem and decrease anxiety, just to name a few. There are also benefits to our rescues such as helping them feel loved while also building trust in humans again.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of paid participants on field trips
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
As a Christ-centered organization, it is our responsibility to create a safe, compassionate environment that helps transform the lives of children and youth who have experienced childhood trauma using equine assisted activities. These activities provide mental, emotional, behavioral, & spiritual healing by introducing them to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and by utilizing the powerful bond between horses & people.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We offer a one-on-one mentorship program for children and youth to experience the healing nature of horses and other farm animals. The student is paired with a mentor as well as a horse or other farm animal of their choice. The ninety minute session consists of a devotion, prayer, conversation time, playing games, grooming a horse, riding a horse, reading to one of our rescues, gardening, or arts/crafts.
There is a 30x40 pole barn on the property that we desire to turn into a Barn for the children to retreat to if the weather is bad.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are very confident that we will meet these goals. We have raised $3k by fundraising and we received a $5k grant. A local realtor has also stated that he will donate whatever else we are in need of.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
December 2023 marked our very first 12 week mentorship program where we served 8 children. The children completed the program in March 2024. They all received a Certificate of Completion and enjoyed a Family BBQ. Two of our participants accepted Jesus Christ to be their Savior.
We have CAD plans and have created a material list for the barn. Many items such as door and windows have been donated. We will submit these plans to the planning commission in the very near future. We hope to begin construction by the beginning of April 2024.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, It is difficult to find the ongoing funding to support feedback collection, Staff find it hard to prioritize feedback collection and review due to lack of time
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Hope for Hooves Rescue
Board of directorsas of 03/13/2024
Steve Threet
Edgewater Technical Associates
Term: 2020 - 2022
Carey Sisler
EZ-GO
Shelby Pattison
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
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