Equi-Ed's annual Ride-A-Thon is taking place July 31 - August 6.
Read our 2010 Ride-A-Thon newsletter for details and make a special gift today!

Our Mission Statement

Using the therapeutic power of the horse to enrich the lives of individuals with disabilities.

Our Goals

~ Enhance each student's educational plan through coordination with school staff and the implementation of activities which support achievement in basic subjects and pre-vocational skills.

~ Improve the students physical, medical, social, and emotional well being through interaction with specially selected horses, in a positive environment which encourages involvement and caring between disabled and non-disabled individuals.

~ Stimulate awareness and understanding of the efficacy of therapeutic riding.

~ Provide professional development and training for individuals in the therapeutic riding industry.

Educationally Based

Equi-Ed is the first North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) center in California to offer Interactive Vaulting by a NARHA Certified Interactive Vaulting Instructor. One of only five NARHA centers in the United States to have a certified interactive vaulting instructor, Equi-Ed leads this field with two professionals trained to lunge and teach gymnastics on horseback.

Interactive Vaulting focuses largely on facilitating an environment which provides opportunity for interaction and experiential learning. Interaction with the horse through ground games, with other vaulters through team activities and with the vaulting instructor through activities on the horse.

In our Read, Ride and Create program, children attend courses taught by a reading specialist, art specialist, and occupational or physical therapist, in addition to riding and horsemanship.

Lessons are held at Santa Rosa Junior College Shone Farm and at our community-based program in Santa Rosa, March to November.

Equi-Ed is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductible.

National Accreditation

All instructors have completed specialized training in therapeutic riding and hold advanced or masters level certification.

To best meet the individual needs of clients, consultation or assessment with Occupational, Physical, and Speech therapists, as well as Adapted Physical Education specialists and Special Education teachers is arranged.

Equi-Ed actively works to promote public awareness of therapeutic riding through student riding demonstrations, and public speaking engagements to organizations and corporations.

Equi-Ed Program Horse Wins NARHA Region 11 Horse of the Year!

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