Healing Hearts
Exploring animal-assisted learning, equine activities, disability-inclusive experiences, and potential guide-dog training partnerships to support connection and confidence.
A proposed community-centered initiative in Rhode Island
Growing healing, opportunity, and resilience together.
The Healing Campus is a developing vision for an accessible, nature-connected community bringing together four complementary farm-based programs, practical skills, supportive relationships, and sustainable infrastructure.
Explore the visionFour farms. One connected vision.
Healing Together
Envisioning family-inclusive recovery, rehabilitation, and supportive pathways that recognize the importance of relationships during healing.
Healing Harvest
Creating a concept for voluntary transitional opportunities combining housing pathways, farming, job skills, education, and dignity-centered support.
Healing Haven
Planning safe, supportive settings for individuals and families, with private cottages and optional, carefully matched shared living arrangements.
Designed to give back
The campus concept prioritizes universal accessibility, ecological restoration, food production, rooftop solar, responsible water management, waste reduction, and emergency preparedness. A long-term goal is to explore research and educational partnerships that could help other communities become more resilient.
People first
Voluntary participation, accessibility, privacy, safety, and individualized support.
Earth first
Organic growing practices, habitat stewardship, protection of wetlands and waterways, and thoughtful land use.
Community first
Potential collaboration with educators, local organizations, volunteers, researchers, and public agencies.
Help shape what comes next
We welcome conversations with prospective community partners, volunteers, supporters, and people with relevant experience.
Project status: This website presents an early-stage vision, not an operating facility or a promise of services. Proposed programs, location, partners, and funding are subject to feasibility studies, approvals, and further planning.