Copes Hope Equine Assisted Services Online Auction

This annual online auction is to help raise funds to support our programs and provide for the care of our equine partners. Our goal with the auction is to raise $3,000.00 and we have included ways, beyond the auction, for members of our community to support Copes Hope. So, we invite to join us on this journey of supporting those who have and will experience the peace, pleasure, and hope. Bid high and bid often please.

Copes Equine Assisted Services is dedicated to providing the community a place of hope, peace, and pleasure to meet their physical, cognitive, emotional, and social needs through therapeutic activities with the horse and nature.

Cope’s Hope Equine Assisted Services was established in 2021 Eric Wright and his wife, Debbie. The inspiration came from their daughters, Ella and Elsie.
Ella was adopted from Ukraine when she was 17 months old, and she had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. They didn’t know if she would be able to walk so we immediately started looking into alternative therapies for her, and stumbled upon equine assisted therapy, also called hippotherapy. They embraced it. Ella started riding when she was three, and she is now 19 years old.

When the Wright family’s second daughter, Elsie, was diagnosed with Angelman Syndrome, a rare neuro-genetic disorder that is often misdiagnosed as autism or cerebral palsy, the benefits of horses as a therapeutic modality were clear.

Cope’s Hope has received its own certification as a member of the PATH organization, allowing the organization to operate formally as an equine assisted services center.

The Wright family hopes to expand their services in the future, and recently hired a part-time certified therapeutic riding instructor in training who lives off-site.