@mikej As I read your post, you tickled a memory and also a thought in my mind. Is there an outreach that could happen, to bring children out to your horses? The healing power of horses cannot be denied!

Many years ago when I was training racehorses, I had to ship into a new track in middle of the night. Of course, my stable was first priority, and I got them bedded down. By then it was well over 24 hrs that I had been up, so I crawled into one of the stalls with a gelding who was just as tired as me. And curled up, went to sleep. That's how they found me the next day. Horses saved my life.
Ginger