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Extension Matters

Volume 11 Number 1

What’s New in Extension

A group of men and women standing in front of a barn and alongside three horses.

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Equine-Assisted Services moves to Mississippi Horse Park

Compiled by Leah Barbour • Photos by Kevin Hudson

Horse riding for children. Horse riding for veterans. Horse riding for special needs and behavioral health.

When a person connects with a horse, a whole range of physical, emotional, cognitive, and psychological benefits can occur, and the Mississippi State University Extension Service offers Equine-Assisted Services with 11 horses that serve about 200 people annually.

Services include a therapeutic riding program for children with special needs, equine-assisted learning for children with special needs, equine-assisted learning for adolescents focusing on behavioral health, the MSU Veterans’ Horsemanship Program, and Veterans Mental Health Support Services.

Until fall 2024, services were based at the Elizabeth A. Howard Therapeutic Riding and Activity Center in West Point. The program moved to the Mississippi Horse Park in Starkville.

Support Equine-Assisted Services HERE.

A brown horse with a white star on the forehead standing on a pasture with three other horses eating hay in the background.

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