Barrington High School students are buddied up with mentors and therapy animals from the SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program to learn how to become registered handlers and provide animal-assisted activity and therapy visits throughout the Barrington community
*AÂ Pet Partners Special Initiative
These library programs are dedicated to improving literacy. StoryTime involves reading to children with therapy animals present. The “Read with Me” program allows children to read to therapy animals in a nonjudgmental environment.
Animal-assisted therapy and activity visits for Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops at SOUL Harbour Ranch. This program is for troops of all ages through age 18, geared towards troops earning their pet and animal badges. Possible opportunities for Cadet and Eagle Scout projects.
Join us for a virtual visit at 5pm on Friday evenings via our Facebook page, SOUL Harbour Ranch and meet our animals! We also host private virtual visits (via Zoom) with the locations that we currently visit, by prior arrangement only. SOUL to SOUL virtual visits…helping us stay connected with our 4-legged friends!