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Horses 4 Hope


We offer Free Equine Assisted Therapy Our mission: "To Assist Each Child with Special Needs in Reaching Their Full Potential through Interaction with Horses"

 We are a nonprofit organization 501(c)3,  All services we provide are to help us provide free therapy to anyone who will benefit from our services including people with physical and mental Disabilities, Victims of Abuse/Violence, At-Risk-Youth, Battered Women, our military & Youth After-Drug Rehab.


More than 750 centers in the United States provide recreational therapy, typically in group lessons. A much smaller number provide hippotherapy which is provided by occupational or physical therapists using the horse as a modality. A small number provide equine facilitated mental health, using the horse to foster relationship building and problem solving.


In the first eight years of operation our mother company Spirithorse, as the result of our research and development and the faithful application of our methods by our certified instructors, we have heard 64 children speak the first word of their lives, helped 48 children walk their first steps to reach their ponies, and seen 38 children sit up for the first time. A study by a leading medical school showed that we moved 24 severely autistic children to mild autism and one to non-autistic in just six months of intervention with our research-based, award-winning methods.
    
Why Choose Therapeutic Riding?

The movement of the horse or pony stimulates the rider's vestibular system (inner ear) which not only controls balance, but all voluntary movement of the body, including speech. Half way through the lesson, our students who have an under-stimulated vestibular system (one form of sensory integration dysfunction) become more active vocally and in body movement. Riders also learn vital skills such as: following instructions, focusing, task sequence, participation and self-confidence.