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Spirit Horse Therapeutic Riding Center 2

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:31:10 +0000

SpiritHorse Therapeutic provides free therapeutic horseback riding services to over 450 children and adults from ten counties in the Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex each week at our facilities in Corinth, just north of Dallas, Texas. We currently serve more children than any center in the world. We are unique in that SpiritHorse is the only large center in America that provides all private therapeutic horseback riding services free of charge in our six programs: Disabilities, Children who are Victims of Abuse/Violence, At-Risk-Youth, Battered Women, and Youth After-Drug Rehab. Our mission is, “To Assist Each Child with Special Needs in Reaching Their Full Potential through Interaction with Horses”.

We also have as a mission: “A kind, rewarding home for older show horses and ponies, loving care, and proper burial on our ranch when they pass on.”

More than 700 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.

SpiritHorse provides what it terms equine-assisted healthcare, which is has a different goal than that of recreational therapy. It includes, for example, eleven specific methods provided in a one-on-one setting for intervening with its 165 children who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. We have developed an instructor as our autism specialist, following the lead of the mainstream medical community who substantially advanced the state-of-the-art in medicine when they developed pediatricians, oncologists, orthopedists, neurologists, and other specialists.

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Multisensory Room & Therapeutic Listening

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:38:44 +0000

United Rehabilitation Services feature two state of the art technologies to help children with autism.

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Friends of Youth

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:17:21 +0000

Informational video about Friends of Youth, an organization that provides a wide range of services for youth and young adults ages 6-24 and their families in Washingtons King and Snohomish Counties. Overseeing eight programs at 20 sites, their caring, experienced clinical staff serves between 10,000 and 15,000 teens, young adults, parents and families each year.

Since 1951, Friends of Youth has been helping young people in challenging circumstances get their lives back on track. Overseeing eight programs at 20 sites, our caring, experienced clinical staff serves between 10,000 and 15,000 teens, young adults, parents and families each year.

In addition to operating the only overnight youth shelters on the Eastside, we offer youth development initiatives, in-home family support for young parents of newborns, parent education, youth and family counseling, substance abuse counseling, therapeutic foster care, residential treatment and transitional housing for homeless young people and teen mothers.

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“Building Futures” -Charlies Story 2009- The Shea Center for Therapeutic Riding

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:12:00 +0000

The Shea Center – we are a nonprofit organization that provides therapeutic riding and hippotherapy treatments to clients with various disabilities. This is the story of one of our clients Charlie. He is 5 years old and has been in Hippotherapy treaments with a physical therapist the past 3 years. www.sheacenter.org

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Spirit Horse Therapeutic Riding Center Information

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:11:02 +0000

We also have as a mission: “A kind, rewarding home for older show horses and ponies, loving care, and proper burial on our ranch when they pass on.”

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Jeremiah’s Promise

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:59:14 +0000

Jeremiah’s Promise is dedicated to addressing the needs of those youth who “age out” of the foster care system at age 18 and who would otherwise face homelessness, poverty and hopelessness.

In a residential setting, we empower these youth to become healthy, self-sufficient, productive members of the community through a comprehensive combination of services that includes: Shared Housing, Mentoring, Education Planning, Academic Support, Career Counseling, Life Skills Development, Monthly Savings Program, Therapeutic Counseling, Employment, and Financial Management.

Jeremiah’s Promise website: http://www.jeremiahspromise.org/

This film is sponsored by the Frieda C. Fox Family Foundation. To see more videos on FCFox non profits visit us at: http://virtualsitevisit.org

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