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Kids & Horses serves children and adults with disabilities in Northern Nevada and neighboring California counties by positively impacting their health and wellness through the use of equine-assisted therapies.
Contact: Joanna Rice, Board of Directors Chair
Catherine O’Brien, Program Director
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- This participant radiates joy. You can almost feel and hear the giggle coming from this picture.
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- A participant and care partner share their appreciation with Kids & Horses instructors and volunteers.
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- Dementia workshop
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- The horse welcomes the participant during fence work. It is a horse’s inherent curiosity and herd mentality that creates the bond between horses and humans.
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- Horses are highly in sync with their environment; interpreting and reacting to cues from their surroundings and other members of the herd. They have an innate ability to “read” behaviors and emotions and exhibit calm confidence, self-awareness, and self-control. The Dementia Project participants can then mirror those same behaviors.