Please
send me the NARHA "Walk On, Stride On" advocacy
bracelet.
My $10 donation to NARHA will help more than 6,000
people with and without special needs receive the
therapeutic benefits that horses offer. (Click on the
bracelet to make your donation now.)
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12/01/2008
Center membership renewals are due
January 15, 2009.
Click here
to renew online.
New NARHA Coloring & Activity Book
Here is a great gift idea—NARHA's engaging coloring and activity book for the whole family! Play games, solve puzzles and read about each of our eleven honored NARHA equines from Stoney to Snickers, Seemore, Cocoa and all the other 2008 Equines of Honor.
Use these wonderful books:
To add value to your camping program
To reward children who ride or volunteer at your center
To promote your center, if you stable one of the Equines of Honor or to build interest in the 2009 Equines of Honor nominations from your center.
To support your own fund raising program
Click on the NARHA Store Button above to purchase your NARHA Coloring & Activity Books now!
$7.95 each (item 99062) or $6.50 each for purchases of ten or more (item 99063).
NARHA
Instructor
Training
Workbook
and
Companion
DVD
This
workbook
and
companion
DVD,
produced
by EAAT
experts,
highlights
skills
required
to
be a
successful
NARHA
Therapeutic
Riding
Instructor,
including:
safety,
teaching
techniques,
lesson
planning
and
volunteer
management.
Low
price
includes
BOTH
the
workbook
and
DVD!
To
purchase,
click
on
the
NARHA
Store
button
above
and
then
click
on
NARHA
Professional
Resources
or
call
(800)
369-RIDE.
NARHA
Member Price:
$55
(includes
shipping)
Standard
Price:
$70
(includes
shipping)
NARHA
CENTERS PROVIDE EQUINE ASSISTED ACTIVITIES Just as other professions use accreditation and
licensing systems to improve the well-being of
their industries, therapeutic equine
professionals have a distinction of their own
thanks to NARHA’s Premier Accredited Center
Program. The Premier Accredited Center Program
offers NARHA centers the chance to demonstrate
their excellence in providing quality,
professional equine assisted activities. This
voluntary process recognizes NARHA centers that
have met established industry standards. The
accreditation process is a peer review system,
in which trained volunteers visit and evaluate
centers in accordance with NARHA standards.
Centers that meet the accreditation requirements
based on the administrative, facility, program
and applicable special interest standards become
Premier Accredited Centers for a period of 5
years. Centers must renew that accreditation by
the end of the fifth year.
NARHA Membership
Who can benefit from
being a member of NARHA? Everyone who believes in equine assisted activities!
NARHA is not just for Instructors and Centers offering equine
assisted activities and therapies (EAAT). Our
individual members include people of all ages with and without
disabilities.
NARHA OFFERS THREE LEVELS OF INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
Registered, Advanced and Master. Specialty Discipline
Certification is also available for driving. Therapeutic riding
instructors that teach at NARHA Centers are required to achieve
(one level of) NARHA Instructor Certification status.
Instructors may apply for any level of certification that they
feel they are qualified to achieve, as long as the application
criteria for that level are met. The criteria at each level
details the skills and knowledge an instructor of that level
must posses regarding Equine Management, Horsemanship,
Instruction, Teaching Methodology and Disabilities. All
evaluations of instructor applications, at all three levels,
regardless of certification method, are based on these criteria. More>>
What are EFL and EFP?
EFL (equine facilitated
learning) is an educational approach that
includes equine facilitated activities
incorporating the experience of equine/human
interaction in an environment of learning or
self discovery. EFL encourages personal
explorations of feelings and behaviors to help
promote human growth and development.
EFP (equine facilitated
psychotherapy) is experiential
psychotherapy that involves equines. It may
include, but is not limited to, such mutually
respectful equine activities as handling,
grooming, longeing, riding, driving, and
vaulting. EFP is facilitated by a licensed,
credentialed mental health professional working
with an appropriately credentialed equine
professional. EFP may also be facilitated by a
mental health professional who is also
credentialed as an equine
professional
more...
On Line Education
NARHA offers 3 classes
online. The volunteer course is available to the public and can be
purchased in the NARHA Store.
Premier Accredited Centers are encouraged to enroll their
volunteers in the online volunteer course free of charge.
The Center Accreditation Training Course (CAT) is also
available to the public through the NARHA store
Persons who are going through the Instructor Certification
Process take the CAT course and the Instructor Self Study
Course (and exams).
The cost for these courses is included
in the $55 fee. Instructor Certification Candidates DO
NOT purchase the courses through the NARHA store.
*All online courses must be purchased in the NARHA store
or as part of the Instructor Certification fee. Do not
try to purchase the course at the Course Webs site
CARRIAGE
DRIVING IS A FAST GROWING SPORT
NARHA centers can offer
students with physical, mental, sensory, or emotional conditions the
rewards of interaction and control of a horse or pony while driving from
a carriage seat or in their own wheelchair. Using a horse and carriage
gives participants an alternative or an addition to riding,
opening up the world of horses to those who may be unable to ride due to
weight, balance, fatigue, fear of heights, the inability to sit astride,
or other issues.
More>>
CARRIAGE
DRIVING IS A FAST GROWING SPORT