New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding

01/17/2025

The horses enjoyed some enrichment before the arctic cold rolls in! 🥕🍎🥶

12/15/2024

Some ‘Behind the Scenes’ from our 2nd Annual Holiday Photo Fundraiser! We are so grateful for all our volunteers that helped us!

12/12/2024

“It’s called fashion. Look it up” -Yoda

12/03/2024

TODAY is ! Support Our Special Horses!

This we're reaching out to ask for your support in funding some very special horses who play a crucial role in our community by supporting people with disabilities.

Why We Need Your Help:

Caring for our wonderful horses comes with significant costs. Providing them with proper nutrition, medical care, and living conditions is essential to ensure they can continue their vital work. That's why we need your help to keep them healthy and happy.

How You Can Help:

Consider making a one-time donation or becoming a monthly donor. Any amount you can give will have a positive impact on both our horses and the individuals they help.

We emphasized the importance of Free Access Hay to our horse’s physical and mental health in our previous posts. Here's how your contribution makes a difference:

- $27 buys a bale of hay. Our herd of 8 eats 2-3 bales a day. That’s about $75 per day!!

Please click the link below for more information about how you can donate:

https://nmctr.networkforgood.com/projects/241277-giving-tuesday

12/02/2024

At NMCTR our horse’s health and wellbeing is of the upmost concern. One way we provide a high level of care is through free access hay. This offers an array of both physical and mental health benefits.

The benefits of free access hay?

- Digestive Health: Free access hay keeps horse’s stomach and hindgut active, which helps prevent ulcers and colic.

- Nutrients: Hay provides horses with energy, carbohydrates, fats, amino acids, minerals, and vitamins.

- Fiber: Is essential to horses digestive health.

- Chewing: free access to hay satisfies a horse’s need to chew.

- Contentment: free access to hay can help keep horses content and occupied.

- Warmth: Horses need to consume more calories in the colder months to stay warm.

Fun fact: Horses have a psychological need to chew. They produce about 12 liters of saliva per day from chewing.

This , we're reaching out to ask for your support in funding some very special horses and their hay fund!

Donate Today!

https://nmctr.networkforgood.com/projects/241277-giving-tuesday

12/01/2024

The Magic of Our Horses:

These loving, sensitive, and large furry friends truly work magic with their human companions. They bring joy and contribute to the cognitive, physical, emotional, and social well-being of everyone they interact with. Their gentle nature and incredible intuition make them invaluable partners in therapy and support.

Here at NMCTR, we ensure our horses get the same love and care they show our students. One way we do this is through providing free access hay. This ensures optimum comfort, happiness, and health for our therapy horses.

What is free access hay?

Free choice hay is a feeding system where horses have access to hay at all times instead of being fed at specific meal times.

Fun fact: Did you know that the average horse consumes 15-25lbs of hay per day?

This , we're reaching out to ask for your support in funding some very special horses who play a crucial role in our community by supporting people with disabilities.

Donate Today!

https://nmctr.networkforgood.com/projects/241277-giving-tuesday

11/30/2024

We are having so much fun at our family photo shoot!! We have two hours left! Come get some great holiday photos with any of our horses!

We have Maina, Ginger, Yoda, Sherman, and Pollo available to choose from! We are at St Bede’s Church in Santa Fe!

11/26/2024

We are less than a week away from our holiday photo fundraiser! 📸

Sign up today to reserve a spot:

Family Photos with the Horses!

11/20/2024

NMCTR's Instructor and Volunteer Coordinator, Kaylee Watkins, is off to a new adventure! Kaylee's dedication and hard work have been instrumental in driving our organization forward and achieving our goals.

Beyond professional achievements, Kaylee has also left a personal mark on us all. Her kindness, humor, and camaraderie have made our days brighter.

Kaylee, as you embark on this new chapter, we wish you nothing but success and happiness. While farewells are bittersweet, they remind us of the lasting relationships we've built. We thank you for everything you've done and for being a wonderful part of our team. Here's to new beginnings and the adventures that await you!

Read more about Kaylee's positive impact on NMCTR here: https://nmctr.org/news-item/farewell-kaylee/

11/18/2024

The New Mexico Center for Therapeutic Riding (NMCTR) recently received another grant to support the School Outreach Program. The City of Santa Fe Children and Youth Commission granted NMCTR a $10,000 grant to be used for classroom scholarships for the School Outreach Program.

The School Outreach Program is an effective and data-driven program that provides an equine-assisted program for under-served, low-income children and youth with disabilities (autism, developmental delay, learning delays, hearing/sight impaired, cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, ADHD, etc.) that attend with their special education classrooms from participating Santa Fe schools.

NMCTR’s School Outreach Program is beloved by the Santa Fe community’s special education teachers and administrators, as it has helped to show marked improvement in students’ capabilities in a myriad of areas.

Thank you to the City of Santa Fe for the support!

11/15/2024

Check out NMCTR’s Unbridled Updates: Quarter 3 Newsletter!

Read here: https://nmctr.dm.networkforgood.com/emails/3620421?recipient_id=APovasxDtZgaVMa5C4lutA%7C%7Cc2NvdmVyMjJAZ21haWwuY29t

11/13/2024

We are at Buffalo Thunder today for the New Mexico Public Education Department’s first-ever Parent University, a two-day event designed to support families of children with disabilities.

This event focuses on enhancing communication between families, schools, and communities. We are having a great time enlightening everyone about equine-assisted services.

11/11/2024

Today, we honor the brave men and women who have served our country with courage and dedication. Let’s take a moment to reflect on their bravery, share our gratitude, and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.

11/08/2024

First snow storm of the winter! ❄️

The horses all received extra hay and did well! A big shout out to our volunteer Lisa W. and our neighbor Claudia R. for helping us check on the horses throughout the storm! 💜