Provides hippotherapy and therapeutic riding services to children and adults with special health care needs using horses.
Programs Include:
- Hippotherapy: Combines riding and the horse's movement with traditionational therapies of occupational and physical therapists.
- Therapeutic Riding: Provides those with various needs the opportunity to learn riding and horsemanship skills, such as grooming, anatomy, tacking, and care.
- Horses Helping Veterans: A program to help meet the needs of service members, whether those needs are physical, emotional, or PTSD- related.
- Horses of Hope: Plush horses with tags that read, “Good for one horse ride at Hope Therapy” are given to children at a local rehabilitation hospital.
- Volunteering: Volunteer opportunities are available to the community. This includes groups coming out to help with a project or individuals who come each week. Some of the volunteer positions include side-walking with clients, grooming and tacking horses for lessons, and leading horses during lessons. They will gladly teach you how to do all of this!
1591 Big Branch Road
Middleburg, FL 32068
904-291-6784
hopetherapy@bellsouth.net
