SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club

09/03/2026

Registered therapy dogs Gracie, Montana & Schatzi welcomed the students of Barrington High School and introduced them to SOUL Buddies- club mentored by SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program. Hoping to see everyone at our 1st official meeting on Thursday, Sept 17th. We saw a lot of old faces and met some new faces too! Appreciate our current SB members coming out to help recruit. Looking forward to a fun and exciting year!

09/03/2026

Want to join the SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club? All Barrington High School students are welcome! The 1st meeting of the year will be held on Thursday Sept 17th 3:30. We meet by the library status next to the upper atrium. See schedule at www.soulbuddiesanimaltherapyclub.com

09/03/2026

It’s Activitiies/Club Day at Barrington High School. Students can meet our therapy dogs and get more info about the SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club. It’s our 9th year mentoring this PAWsome club! ♥️🐴🐶

06/15/2026

The SOUL Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program loved having Barrington High School SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club students Izabella and Anindita join them at today’s “Walk with Me” program at Deer Park Town Center.

05/15/2026

What a beautiful day for our last SOUL Buddies Community visit for the 25/26 school year. Today we partnered with Barrington Youth and Family Services & BStrong Together outside of Starbucks. Registered Therapy Dogs Sawyer, Betty, Schatzi & Gracie as well as Therapy Horse Cupcake loved sharing their unconditional love with our Barrington community. Lots of smiles, hugs and pets were had by kids of all ages. We wish our SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club students a happy and safe summer and see you next year!

05/08/2026

We have been so honored to have incredible seniors in the SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club at Barrington High School. At today’s visit we had Josh and Joie, and then Joie and others came out to celebrate! We will miss Joie, Alex, Josh and Chloe but we know the younger students will carry on this amazing club. We will see Josh at Transitions and Joie at NIU when we visit! We’re talking about a SOUL Buddies to NIU!

05/08/2026

Our SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club students from Barrington High School loved visiting the Barrington Park District K.E.E.P. after-school program at Grove Avenue Elementary. Therapy dogs Betty, Leo, Lizzy, Maverick and Schatzi and mini horses BlueBelle (hamming it up with “smile”) and GiGi (in training) loved visiting with approximately 50 kids plus staff. The kids had their iPads out and were taking pictures, videos, selfies and squeezed in time to visit all 7 of our special therapy animals! We look forward to visiting more of the K.E.E.P. Program schools next year! It was Joie & Josh’s 2nd to last visit with SOUL Buddies as they graduate soon. Next week we will be visiting on Thursday 5/14 with BStrong Together and Barrington Youth and Family Services at the downtown Starbucks from 4-5pm for Mental Health Awareness Month!

04/25/2026

04/17/2026

Today was the last ranch training day for the SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club. We have dog training next week, then 2 visits and the year is done!
We will be celebrating our seniors and all SOUL Buddies with a pizza party on May 14 after Puppies, Ponies & PAWSitive Mental Health. All SOUL Buddies from this year are invited!

04/10/2026

Such a great day of SOUL Buddies Animal Therapy Club dog training at Barrington High School. 🐶♥️🐾 Therapy dogs Betty, Bliss, Daisy, Gracie, Lizzy & Schatzi loved their walks and visits throughout the hallways! The students did such a fabulous job handing all 6 dogs!