Distinctly Montana Magazine

2021 // Spring

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w w w . d i s t i n c t l y m o n t a n a . c o m 89 Since September, we have also been offering a Leadership Development class that serves neuro-typical children and children with learning differences who are learning primar- ily at home this year. This program will start again in early March of 2021 for 6-8 year olds and 11-13 year olds." Abigail has many stories of the therapy's instrumental value in even the toughest cases. "Last summer," Abigail tells us, "the team provided equine-assisted therapy for a nine-year-old girl who had been sexually abused. Her adoptive mother had feared for her and her son's safety due to her daughter's violent outbursts. Eventually, the Chinook Horses team and the mother agreed to augment therapy with small group work to help her daughter address her violent behaviors at home and at school. She was able to develop critical social and communication skills she needed to help her regulate her emotions and communicate her needs to others. The inter- vention of equine-assisted therapy resulted in an impactful change to her behaviors at home, as she learned how to manage her anger in safer, more appropriate ways with this supplemental intervention." Please join us in thanking Chinook Horses and Abigail for the great work that they are doing—may it continue to brighten the lives of people, children and adults, who would most benefit from the experience of a horse's re- markable and compassionate comprehension. Get answers from doctors. Not some randos on the internet. Download the b2 VirtualCare App to talk to a doctor after hours, today. ANYONE WHO HAS EVER EXPERIENCED A HORSE'S AFFECTION KNOWS HOW WARM AND REASSURING THAT CAN FEEL.

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