Assessment and Training
The Issue: Many rescued horses have no training, or need to overcome harsh treatment from previous owners. These horses do not hold a value and are often sold for meat, or unnecessarily euthanized. A program where horses can be observed, assessed and trained in a modality that will help to ensure their ongoing future value is needed to give some of these horses a chance and to help them integrate into new and caring “employment”.
Our Solution: HPS has developed relationships with professional trainers. It is our plan to have a trainer come in once a month to assess, work with and advise us on each horse. The trainer would work with HPS staff and our paid riders who will continue the prescribed program for the month, and present the horse for re-assessment the following month. Paid riders will work once a week with the horses and with volunteers who can do some of the handling and work in between times.
Benefits: This program will fast track placement of horses because it will monitor and facilitate their progress on a regular basis. Also, proper and professional assessments will help to place horses appropriately, reducing the return rate. Working with top trainers will also be a marketing and promotional tool for HPS. Finally, allowing volunteers the opportunity to work with and/or observe professionals will bring in more volunteers and will serve to improve the quality of their contributions to the organization.
When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind
and a bridle on the lightening,
He called it the horse.
~ Anonymous
Our Solution: HPS has developed relationships with professional trainers. It is our plan to have a trainer come in once a month to assess, work with and advise us on each horse. The trainer would work with HPS staff and our paid riders who will continue the prescribed program for the month, and present the horse for re-assessment the following month. Paid riders will work once a week with the horses and with volunteers who can do some of the handling and work in between times.
Benefits: This program will fast track placement of horses because it will monitor and facilitate their progress on a regular basis. Also, proper and professional assessments will help to place horses appropriately, reducing the return rate. Working with top trainers will also be a marketing and promotional tool for HPS. Finally, allowing volunteers the opportunity to work with and/or observe professionals will bring in more volunteers and will serve to improve the quality of their contributions to the organization.
When the Almighty put hoofs on the wind
and a bridle on the lightening,
He called it the horse.
~ Anonymous
