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Animal Assisted Therapeutic Programs:
Kid-safe youth events, activities and day-programs.
We believe the most important thing you can do for a child developmentally is to read to them. After this, providing a variety of healthy outdoor activities is the best thing you can do for your child. As we become a more urban world, we are leaving our connections to animals and nature in the dust. Too few children have the opportunity to ever touch a farm animal or ride a horse... not to mention learn the skill necessary to care for them. At RIDE, our volunteers work with kids and nature to provide enrichment and learning opportunities not in a classroom but outdoors, where kids belong. We are developing our own cirriculumn, which of course is in book form and meant to travel to the stables, fields and haylofts where kids learn best!
We believe the most important thing you can do for a child developmentally is to read to them. After this, providing a variety of healthy outdoor activities is the best thing you can do for your child. As we become a more urban world, we are leaving our connections to animals and nature in the dust. Too few children have the opportunity to ever touch a farm animal or ride a horse... not to mention learn the skill necessary to care for them. At RIDE, our volunteers work with kids and nature to provide enrichment and learning opportunities not in a classroom but outdoors, where kids belong. We are developing our own cirriculumn, which of course is in book form and meant to travel to the stables, fields and haylofts where kids learn best!
Animal assisted therapeutic activities and counseling.
RIDE is partnering with programs and professionals who realize the importance of connecting with individuals in an open, relaxed atmosphere. What is more relaxed than standing in a stable full of horses and other farm animals, or sitting with a kitten or dog at your side? Studies have shown that seniors, youth, and those with mental illness are more likely to open up and work through issues with the tactile and emotional support of an animal in the therapy setting. RIDE is focused on expanding these theraputic services in SE MN.
RIDE is partnering with programs and professionals who realize the importance of connecting with individuals in an open, relaxed atmosphere. What is more relaxed than standing in a stable full of horses and other farm animals, or sitting with a kitten or dog at your side? Studies have shown that seniors, youth, and those with mental illness are more likely to open up and work through issues with the tactile and emotional support of an animal in the therapy setting. RIDE is focused on expanding these theraputic services in SE MN.
Programs to encourage physical activity and outdoor experiences.
Our volunteers work hard to provide for our animals, and maintain the land that they are house on. But shouldn't everyone have the chance to walk on a trail, dig in the dirt, and just have fun with animals and nature? RIDE offers opportunities for body active individual or team building experiences. RIDE partners with other organizations to make the most of our programming sites, and help individuals without access to a rural setting experience the good life, farm life!
Our volunteers work hard to provide for our animals, and maintain the land that they are house on. But shouldn't everyone have the chance to walk on a trail, dig in the dirt, and just have fun with animals and nature? RIDE offers opportunities for body active individual or team building experiences. RIDE partners with other organizations to make the most of our programming sites, and help individuals without access to a rural setting experience the good life, farm life!
Kid-safe youth activities, day camps, and events.
What are we going to do with those kids all summer? RIDE is developing programming to fill in those dog
days of summer, complete with animals and nature. Sure the kids will get dirty, but they wash! It's just
the smiles that are hard to scrub off after a busy day on the farm.
What are we going to do with those kids all summer? RIDE is developing programming to fill in those dog
days of summer, complete with animals and nature. Sure the kids will get dirty, but they wash! It's just
the smiles that are hard to scrub off after a busy day on the farm.
And don't forget therapy for your Horses!
Massage Therapy and MyoTherapy is available at a reduced price for any adopted horse (regardless of where it was adopted) by Jannis at Ride In Rhythm! Do something theraputic for your horse....and see the difference in their health and behavior!
RIDE is Not-for-Profit.....we want OTHERS to profit from our activities!
