Endeavor offers five programs to our local community. These programs facilitate growth, development, and healing to over 500 individuals each year.
Residential Youth Horsemanship
Endeavor partners with local residential facilities to support the efforts for positive youth development to the areas most vulnerable young men and women due a variety of factors including poverty, racism, mental health diagnosis, and histories of trauma.
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Endeavor offers five programs to our local community. These programs facilitate growth, development, and healing to over 500 individuals each year.
Residential Youth Horsemanship
Endeavor partners with local residential facilities to support the efforts for positive youth development to the areas most vulnerable young men and women due a variety of factors including poverty, racism, mental health diagnosis, and histories of trauma.
Staff at our partnering agencies report measurable and marked progress in emotion management, ability to self-soothe, positive response to change, and increased levels of engagement.
Equine Assisted Learning
Endeavor partners with local schools or school districts to offer programs in the sensory rich environment of the farm. Endeavor instructors partner with the teachers to create lessons plans that compliment the learning objectives in the classroom.
Therapeutic Horsemanship
Therapeutic horseback riding and ground horsemanship are recreational and sport-based activities that naturally complement one another. The program teaches both riding and unmounted horse skills to children and adults.
Participants are able to learn riding skills in a safe and judgement free environment that is empowering and fun. These skills include mounting and dismounting, steering, transitions, posting, half seat, diagonals, ring figures, leg yields, and jumping.
On the ground, the participant is able to tend to their horse and experience a stronger bond than riding alone. This includes but is not limited to horse anatomy, grooming, first aid and healthcare, feeding and watering, leading and lunging, and horse breeds and colors and history.
Endeavor can accommodate children of varying levels and always focus on the ability and setting goals that continue to challenge and inspire.
Some of the therapeutic benefits that we typically observer include physical improvements like increase in core strength and fine motor skills; cognitive improvements like increase in ability to perform multi-step directions; emotional improvements like the increase ability in self-regulation, and social skills for example increase in confidence to communicate with peers.
Veteran and Active Duty Military
Endeavor Veteran Program is currently offering both in person and virtual equine assisted services. Programs offered include ground horsemanship session and equine assisted psychotherapy sessions utilizing the EAGALA model.
Clinical Services
Endeavor works with clinical specialists to offer Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy is an experiential process in which a licensed mental health professional works with equines to address personal therapy goals set forth by the mental health professional and the client.
Physical therapists at Endeavor utilize the unique multidimensional movement of the horse to facilitate changes in the participants. The movement is rhythmic and repetitive in nature, thus providing a dynamic base of support, making it an excellent tool for increasing trunk control and strength, balance, postural control and endurance, as well as weight bearing and motor planning. The therapist is able to manipulate various aspects of the horse’s gait and movements, the participant’s position on the horse, the therapeutic tack and types of activities/interventions to generate and promote functional outcomes.
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