LEAD promotes Leadership, Education, and Active Development through hands-on activities with horses. Horses provide the catalyst for positive change and personal growth for children, youth, and adults.
Traditional settings such as classrooms and therapists offices can be restrictive and limiting for people struggling with behavioral, mental health or educational challenges. LEAD provides an effective educational and therapeutic alternative. Through complimentary
equine activities, LEAD offers opportunities to develop wide-ranging skills that can be carried over into other contexts.
Using a strengths-based, experiential approach, LEAD provides structure and guidance to assist individuals, groups, and families in finding solutions, inspiration, and empowerment. Caring for and working with horses teaches critical life and social skills:
equine assisted activities require concerted attention, present challenges and goals, and build supportive relationships. Horses build self-sufficiency, self-reliance, self-efficacy and self-esteem.
LEAD serves residents of Reno Nevada and surrounding communities, and will offer three core programs:
LEAD offers individualized sessions for children, youth and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder. Working one on one with horses creates a tangible avenue to address challenges with regulation, sensory integration, social
skills, planning and problem solving, and communication skills.
LEADers is an empowerment program for adolescent girls. The program employs best practices in positive youth development, equine assisted learning, and horsemanship.
Lead instructors partner with licensed mental health professionals to offer equine assisted psychotherapy to address a variety of mental health and human development needs.
We have the horses, the humans, the program, and even the facility! We need your help to bring LEAD to life!
