The Mane Mission is a 4-year old grassroots nonprofit that uses Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) to improve overall wellbeing for individuals and groups. Founded by a Licensed Professional Counselor, the mission provides mental health services to a broad spectrum of the population, especially teens. In addition, we served over 1100 people with developmental and intellectual disabilities as a day program site in 2023. The Mane Mission has grown far beyond our mom and pop initial organizational structure. Our goal is to be able to retain 2 full time staff so that we can continue to operate at the needed level to support the broad needs of our community.