Services
Ride With Pride Programs
Ride With Pride’s programs are designed to meet the needs of each student. Our horsemanship programs teach our students basic horse care include grooming, proper use of tack, and saddling, as well as basic riding skills.
For those with physical disabilities, riding on the back of a horse provides the gentle motions, rotations, balance and gait patterns they could not perform themselves. This gives the rider a renewed sense of body control and helps build the strength and flexibility to develop in ways that may not have been possible utilizing conventional physical therapies.
Ride with Pride programs also provides therapeutic activities for people with learning disabilities and emotional challenges. The relationship that naturally develops between the rider and the horse, and the requirement for providing care for the animal, fosters responsibility, independence self-esteem and trust –put it all together and you have what we at Ride with Pride call “The Magic.”
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Veterans Program
Helps military personnel through a combination of equine activities, recreation, and socialization by following the PATH international Equine Services for Horses Program. Offers opportunities to connect with a horse and build new trust-centered skills. It is tailored to address specific issues faced by wounded and traumatized military personnel. This program provides a supportive and therapeutic environment for the Veteran and their family/loved ones.
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Therapeutic Riding
Our staff of professionally trained instructors help our clients learn basic horsemanship skills and riding techniques through the use of equine assisted therapeutic activities. Based on the students’ needs the instructors will create specialized lesson plans that will help improve muscle tone, joint mobility, balance, coordination, posture, confidence, and self-esteem.
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Reading With Horses Book Club
Ride With Pride is excited to introduce its newest group program, Reading With Horses. This program is a book club for children 6-12 and 13-17 who may struggle in school, have an LD or other learning diagnosis, who may want to gain more time around horses and peers while having fun talking about their book, and more! Meetings will be 1 hour long with group discussions, time reading with or to the horses in their own space, and fun activities with the horses. We are partnering with our local libraries to provide books to choose from. Our meeting will be once a week for 4 weeks. The monthly fee to join the book club is $100 ($25 a session). Our start date is to be determined. Please contact us for more information or to get signed up today!
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Healthy Horse Program
This program focuses on building parent and child relationships and increasing one’s understanding of nutrition through fun games and groundwork activities using the horses care to relate to themselves. This 6 lesson group creates a better understanding of health for horses and yourself, builds confidence with both parent and child, and creates activities that gets everyone moving! This program is specially developed for kids from ages 8-14 and at least one parent or older sibling to work together. Contact us for further questions and prices about the program!
Student Form and Applications
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Please choose the session you want from the drop-down box choices. If you do not have a PayPal account, or simply wish to use credit card, you will have an option to do so. A PayPal account is not necessary. Late Registration Fees are required when applying for a session after the following dates:
Spring session early registration cut off February 28th.