King’s Home Stables

King’s Home Stables is a fully operational farm with an equine therapy program offering hope and healing through bonding with horses.

About Us

In 2012, King’s Home launched King’s Home Stables as the Equine Therapy Program for the residents of King’s Home Youth Program. Over the years the program has expanded to provide services for the residents of King’s Home Women & Children’s Program along with other local nonprofits and community groups.

Our Story

King’s Home Stables is a fully operational farm with an equine therapy program offering hope and healing through bonding with horses.

The goal of equine therapy is to help King’s Home residents and other participants develop needed skills and character traits, such as accountability, responsibility, self-confidence, problem-solving skills, and self-control. Horses naturally break down barriers and provide experiences where individuals learn a great deal about their own strengths and weaknesses. Through learning real horsemanship skills, residents can walk away with life lessons that stretch far beyond their time at King’s Home Stables.

Our Services

Equine Therapy

Equine Therapy incorporates horses into the therapeutic healing process. Our team works closely with residents of King’s Home and other groups in activities such as grooming, feeding, and leading a horse. Participants develop skills such as emotional regulation/awareness, self-confidence, social skills, trust and empathy, impulse control, problem-solving skills, responsibility, and more. We provide therapy sessions for those working through grief, trauma, abuse, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and at-risk youth.

Therapeutic Riding

Therapeutic Riding is mounted horseback riding for the purpose of contributing positively to the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social well-being of people with disabilities through the teaching of horsemanship skills. Individuals, age 4 to adult may come and enjoy group riding lessons at any skill level. We provide therapeutic horseback riding for individuals with cognitive disabilities, physical disabilities, and emotional disorders.

Equine Education

Come learn with us! Opportunities are available to learn about horsemanship, improve team building, or experience hands-on educational activities at the farm. We serve various groups including scouts, churches, corporate teams, schools, and other members of the community.

Meet Our Team

  • I was born and raised in northern Kentucky and, being from the horse capital of the world, I naturally grew up with a passion for horses. My family purchased our first horses in 2007 and I took riding lessons for several years. I recently moved these very horses to my home in Childersburg. After graduating high school, I entered college at Eastern Kentucky University and pursued a degree in American Sign Language and English Interpretation. For my senior internship, I traveled to Talladega, AL, and interned for five months with the Regional Center. During that time here, I volunteered at MGH Special Equestrians and fell in love with the therapeutic riding programs. After graduating, I was offered a job at MGH as their Student Worker Program Coordinator and Instructor Assistant. I promptly moved to Alabama and began my career as a Therapeutic Riding Instructor and also obtained my PATH (Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship) Registered Instructor Certification. This career allowed me to combine the skills I acquired in college with my lifelong passion for horses. When I was offered this position at King’s Ranch, I was so excited to be able to build my experience and branch out into a different field of therapeutic horsemanship. Indeed, I am truly blessed to have this opportunity and cannot wait to see what the future holds.

  • I have always had a passion and love for horses and kids. Throughout my life, I have strived to help others. In 2015, God opened up my first big opportunity to serve others with horses. For four and a half years, I had the privilege to work with kids from the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. During my time employed there, I achieved an Intermediate Level SCPI (Sign Language Proficiency Interview).

    In June of 2017, I received my PATH Certified Riding Instructor Certificate. Additionally, I am on the board for the Alabama Hunter Jumper Association (AHJA) and have competed in Hunter Jumpers for many years. In June 2020, God provided me with another amazing opportunity to work at King’s Stables. I am so excited to serve our incredible youth at King’s Home and be involved in all of the other wonderful programs we offer.

Our Horses

  • Major

  • Annie

  • Bella

  • Bo

  • Callie

  • Deco

  • Jolene

  • Kookie

  • Mariah

  • Petunia

  • Rohnen

We Love Our New Barn

King’s Home Stables officially opened our new facility “The Morton Family Barn” on December 1, 2021 in honor of beloved donors, the Morton Family.

The Lord has truly blessed us with this expansion as God continues to use Equine Therapy to help change the lives of our residents and community.

King’s Home Stables new barn includes a 120 foot front porch, 12 horse stalls with automatic watering bowls, a hot and cold-water wash stall, tack room, feed room with a working sink, office space, a classroom, and two ADA accessible bathrooms.

“The Morton Family’s generous gift is a lasting legacy that God will use to transform lives of abused youth, moms, and kids at King’s Home plus many others for decades to come.”

Lew Burdette, President, King’s Home

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