RAVEN ROCK RANCH
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Mission Statement
To intercept & break the cycles of teen suicide, trauma, and domestic violence by pairing at-risk youth with rescued horses, transforming the youth and horse in a bond of trust that leads to mental and physical recovery. Our vision is to provide therapies and supports which help to recover children and restore families.
About This Cause
• 80,000 Referral calls for child abuse are made in the state of Washington every year. These are just the incidents reported. More children are out there. Source: Washington State - Child Protective Services • #2 Suicide is the second leading cause of death in the state of Washington for youth 10-24 years old. Source: Washington State Department of Health • 49.7% Of all crimes committed against an individual in Washington state are domestic violence crimes. Source: Washington State Institute for Public Policy • X4 Rates of youth suicide and attempted suicide have more than quadrupled in the last 10 years. Source: Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families • $231 MILLION In medical costs and lost future productivity due to annual youth suicides in Washington state. Source: Washington State Department of Health Founded in 2011, Raven Rock Ranch (RRR) has a mission to intercept and break the cycles of trauma, suicide, and domestic violence. Our vision is to provide therapies and supports which help to recover and restore families. As part of our mission, many of our horses are rescued from abusive homes or abandonment. Once a horse is in our care, we carefully evaluate the animal for temperament, reliability, and behavior to ensure a good fit for our program and clients. Explained in simple terms, the human response to trauma and danger is to fight it or run away from it. It often happens that the fight or flight response gets stuck in a cycle that can feel impossible to break out of. Raven Rock’s therapy can “flip” the outcome. The difference between our Equine Facilitated therapy and other modalities is that we never trigger the fight or flight response. Instead, we rewrite neural pathways giving the client the tools they need to talk about their trials when and if they are ready. They do not have to ever talk about these trials to be restored to a strong mental state. Our program serves children in Western Washington who have experienced severe emotional, physical, or verbal trauma and/or abuse. 85% of our clients are adopted or in foster care. Many have ongoing issues with violent behavior at school or in the home, with alcohol and drug addiction, and with abuse or neglect. In many cases these individuals have contemplated and planned suicide. The majority of the clients supported by RRR have also been diagnosed with debilitating mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, attention deficit disorder and all forms of attachment disorders. To support these exceptionally high-risk clients, RRR uses scientifically tested mental health therapies that are very individualized – one client, one horse, and one therapist work together to develop skills such as cooperation, trust, building healthy boundaries, and responsibility. All of our professional therapists and facilitators are trained and certified in HEAL, Human Equine Alliances for Learning, which is internationally recognized as a premier model of Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy and Learning (EFPL). Our mental health program is one of the highest efficacy programs with unparalleled results in Washington State: After 1 year of treatment, we see the following results: • Suicidal ideation rate decreases from 98% to 2% • Grade points go from 1.7 to 3.2 • School attendance go up from 58% to 93% • Home and school behaviors improve until the negative behaviors are extinguished RRR exists to help clients in crisis like Irene (not her real name), who has been coming to the ranch for a few years. Her trauma was the result of being raped at a camp she attended when 9 years old. She confided in her mom about the abuse years after the incident, and it left Irene feeling damaged, dirty and unable to defend herself. Schoolwork suffered and she was suicidal. When she first came to RRR she was very, very quiet for at least a year, but she loved her horse and every week she could feel his strength and courage and borrow it for a little while. The progress felt slow at times. But she stuck with it, made some hard choices about what was really important to her in this life, and now that she is 19, she has finished high school on time (a feat that no one believed she could accomplish). Now she is in college and pursuing a career in performing arts. Last year, RRR provided 2,000 hours and 1200 sessions of free mental health services. During the pandemic, our work has stepped up – our clients are coming more frequently. We expect greater demand for EFPL in the coming months, as many more families experience trauma related to the COVID-19 pandemic. RRR is the only no-cost Equine-Facilitated Therapy program in the entire Western Washington region.