Hearts Horse-Powered Reading/Life skills After School Program (2024-2025)
We now have After School Program called, “Hearts Horse Powered Reading/ Life skills After School Program”
Horse Powered Reading® integrates social-emotional learning with academics; thus, allowing students see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions by creating metaphors for the skills involved in reading. See website what we are certified to do at www.horsepoweredreading.com.
Social-emotional issues, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other mental Social-emotional issues, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and other mental health concerns often get in the way of student learning. Horse Powered Reading can break through those challenges giving students a chance to learn or reinforce reading and other academic skills in the moment, other mental health concerns often get in the way of student learning.
Students interact with horses from the ground, while using toys and props to identify obstacles and learn five critical reading skills - phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
- Increase confidence
- Promote self-efficacy
- Foster connections
- Learn valuable reading skills
- Carry new skills into the regular classroom
Stable Moments Life Skills (www.stablemoments.com) for children in foster care.
Help end the foster care crisis.
There are over 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system. Ending this cycle begins with each individual child. Meeting them where they are at, understanding their experience, and developing their self-worth, sense of purpose, decision making, executive
functioning and self-regulation skills.
We pair horse powered reading, stable moments, and Equine-facilitated learning, and the child, whether diagnosed with developmental disabilities, in foster care, or in the homeless shelter, heals and grows, helping mental wellness and continued mental wellness.
Program is Monday Thru Friday 9-6pm and Saturdays 7am-4 Pm.