The CCHR "Learn, Care & Share" Program
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I am a part of all that I have met.
~Alfred Tennyson
Part of the rehabilitation we offer to the horses in our care is to give them a wide variety of activities in which they can engage. One of their most important and fun "duties" is to be ambassadors for all animals in need and also to "give back" to the human community that helps to protect and support them.
The CCHR "Learn, Care & Share" Program is designed to introduce children and young people to horses and to teach them equine basics and animal care. The children get to meet all of the horses up close and see how horses interact with people and other horses. There is carefully supervised "hands-on" time with the horses, and there are always fun, horse-inspired crafts to work on, as well. We believe that children benefit from interacting with the CCHR horses (and animals in general) because we feel that learning about compassion and empathy early in life can help build moral character, reduce violence and build a sense responsibility. When its citizens are more caring towards each other and the animals who live among them, society, as a whole, reaps the benefits.
This program also allows the CCHR horses to interact with children. For horses with trust issues, we have found that children offer them gentle and happy interaction which can, in turn, help these horses to more readily accept people in general.
CCHR offers this program free of charge to schools, groups, and clubs. For more information on the "Learn, Care & Share" Program, please contact us at (805) 758-8312.
~Alfred Tennyson
Part of the rehabilitation we offer to the horses in our care is to give them a wide variety of activities in which they can engage. One of their most important and fun "duties" is to be ambassadors for all animals in need and also to "give back" to the human community that helps to protect and support them.
The CCHR "Learn, Care & Share" Program is designed to introduce children and young people to horses and to teach them equine basics and animal care. The children get to meet all of the horses up close and see how horses interact with people and other horses. There is carefully supervised "hands-on" time with the horses, and there are always fun, horse-inspired crafts to work on, as well. We believe that children benefit from interacting with the CCHR horses (and animals in general) because we feel that learning about compassion and empathy early in life can help build moral character, reduce violence and build a sense responsibility. When its citizens are more caring towards each other and the animals who live among them, society, as a whole, reaps the benefits.
This program also allows the CCHR horses to interact with children. For horses with trust issues, we have found that children offer them gentle and happy interaction which can, in turn, help these horses to more readily accept people in general.
CCHR offers this program free of charge to schools, groups, and clubs. For more information on the "Learn, Care & Share" Program, please contact us at (805) 758-8312.
