The Method
What We Accomplish
Hope Ranch for Women offers whole-life, Christ-centered mentoring to women at risk for human trafficking and other dangers. Our mentors, believers in the power of Christ, are trained to understand the full range of risks and traumas that can affect a survivor’s ability to heal and thrive.
Our Three Methods
There are three key strategies which Hope Ranch for Women uses to help its survivors heal.
Our mentors offer unconditional acceptance as they work to model healthy behaviors, relationships, and lifestyles to assist survivors as they transition from a life of risk to one that nurtures their mind, body, and soul.
We use our equine-assisted learning program as another way to help each survivor develop trust and healthy relationships. We believe God can use the bond between a horse and a survivor to help break down barriers and expose toxic thought patterns—and help nurture new ways of thinking and new patterns of behavior. The trained facilitators at our ranch help ensure horse and survivor are working together effectively.
Our residential home offers a place for restoration and recovery. As is true of the other two prongs of our approach, the Hope Ranch Home offers security and trust while promoting new behaviors and healthy thought processes.
Cat is a certified Faith-Based Equine-Assisted Philosophy facilitator and a professional horse specialist. Since childhood, she has ridden, taught, trained, bred, competed, and passionately loved horses. She has shown nationally in both western and dressage disciplines. Cat received her Bachelor of Arts degree and her Master of Arts degree in Communication from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. She is the founder of Life Participation Seminars. She is the author of