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CTREE, Fighting Chance and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital Partner To Create Important Support Network for Cancer Patients and Survivors

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CTREE Executive Director Karen Bocksel chats with clients before they go out into the field for some grooming. CAILIN RILEY

CTREE Executive Director Karen Bocksel chats with clients before they go out into the field for some grooming. CAILIN RILEY

CTREE Executive Director Karen Bocksel chats with clients before they go out into the field for some grooming. CAILIN RILEY

CTREE Executive Director Karen Bocksel chats with clients before they go out into the field for some grooming. CAILIN RILEY

Tracie Sullivan, a cancer exercise specialist with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, leads the women through a series of movements to warm up before they being grooming the horses. CAILIN RILEY

Tracie Sullivan, a cancer exercise specialist with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, leads the women through a series of movements to warm up before they being grooming the horses. CAILIN RILEY

Tracie Sullivan, a cancer exercise specialist with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, leads the women through a series of movements to warm up before they being grooming the horses. CAILIN RILEY

Tracie Sullivan, a cancer exercise specialist with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, leads the women through a series of movements to warm up before they being grooming the horses. CAILIN RILEY

Noodles, Lucky and Archie are the CTREE therapy horses used in the program. They enjoy some grass in the field at Topping Riding Club in Sagaponack before being groomed by the women who come for the class on Mondays. CAILIN RILEY

Noodles, Lucky and Archie are the CTREE therapy horses used in the program. They enjoy some grass in the field at Topping Riding Club in Sagaponack before being groomed by the women who come for the class on Mondays. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Carla and client Lisa working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Carla and client Lisa working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Carla and client Lisa working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Carla and client Lisa working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Laura and client Marie working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

Volunteer Laura and client Marie working with Noodles. CAILIN RILEY

authorCailin Riley on May 27, 2024
When Lisa Standiford was a child, she would wake up at dawn many mornings, and trek, bleary-eyed, over to the neighboring farm of a family friend to help milk the... more

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