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ADVANTAGE RANCH TIMES features stories and information on the happenings at ADVANTAGE RANCH Center for Equine Interactive Concepts. TIMES is published quarterly. As a vital information source on ADVANTAGE RANCH activities, it is circulated to a wide audience including friends and supporters, general media, horse industry businesses and organizations, and subscribers. The first edition features a variety of information on the program, people, and place that make the Center special. A mother shares her son’s story, and how the Equine Interactive Counseling™ program has helped him manage the challenge of learning disabilities. To request a copy of ADVANTAGE RANCH TIMES call (540)951-8545 or e-mail hq@advantageranch.com. Subscriptions are available. Students Compete with Honors at Youth National Appaloosa Horse Show Cassie and Morgan Stoevener of Blacksburg Virginia competed at the 51st National Appaloosa Show in Oklahoma City. Both girls participate in the community based center for Equine Interactive Counseling™ at the home of ADVANTAGE RANCH. Cassie, age nine, competed in the Walk-Trot division. She placed third in the Hunt Seat Equitation class. Morgan, age five, showed in the leadline with her mom’s help. This is a family affair. Children can grow in this program in a team with their parents. Morgan finished twelfth in a class of 27 children. "Cassie had set her highest goals in the Hunt Seat class. For the last five months she has worked five days a week on this goal. She showed in the other classes and had lots of fun. But where she worked the hardest is where she accomplished the most. As a parent, this is where I see the Equine Interactive Counseling™ program working for her. This is a life lesson that will last long after her beautiful ribbon has faded," said Cassie’s mom. "Morgan was disappointed because she didn’t get a ribbon like her sister. But her enthusiasm is high and she reset her goal for next year. I think a five year old that understands goals is on the right track," said mom. The National Appaloosa Show, a two week extravaganza, attracts competitors from all over the country. This year the show featured the first class for children with disabilities. Thanks go out to the Appaloosa Horse Club for helping draw attention to the benefits of horses for children with special needs!! The Equine Chronicle features stories from EVERY CHILD’S DREAM The Equine Chronicle, a trade publication for the Appaloosa, Paint and Quarter Horse industries, features an Equine Interactive CounselingTM story in its September 1998 issue. This story is taken from the introduction to EVERY CHILD’S DREAM Parent Partnerships with Equine Interactive Programs to Increase your Child’s Emotional Well-Being by Debora Anne Dyer. Ms. Dyer is a national specialist on the use of horses to help children with emotional challenges enhance their lives through horse activities. She serves as the Executive Director of ADVANTAGE RANCH Center for Equine Interactive Concepts. The featured story tells some of the author’s own experiences growing up with horses and how those horse experiences were life lessons. The book, EVERY CHILD’S DREAM, places in the hands of parents cutting edge counseling technologies that help children through well-coached horse programs. It is recommended reading for any parent whose children are horse enthusiasts and for any person working with children and horses. Watch for more stories in future issues of The Equine Chronicle. ADVANTAGE Foundation, Inc. Welcomes New Board Members ADVANTAGE Foundation, Inc., a non-profit educational charity supporting Equine Interactive Counseling activities nationwide, welcomes two new board members. Steven D. Powell is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for Caroll County Maryland. A long time resident of the Westminster area, Mr. Powell is an able and experienced administrator and gifted educator. Mr. Powell is an experienced amateur equestrian who hunts regularly. His wife, Heather, is a mental health professional working with special needs children. Their commitment to the ADVANTAGE Foundation mission is a family affair. Mary Ann Van Horn, of Aurora, Colorado, is an analyst at the Internal Revenue Service, Denver office. Although she did not have a horse filled childhood, Ms. Van Horn married into a family of horse enthusiasts. She has seen first hand the wonderful communication that can exist between man and horse. Ms. Van Horn is a driving force In the development of the ADVANTAGE RANCH program. Her analytical abilities and implementation perspective contribute to growth in program and materials development and operational matters. She will now apply her lifelong personal commitment to life enhancing opportunities for children to services on the ADVANTAGE Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors. ADVANTAGE Foundation, Inc. Announces New Fund Raising Drive ADVANTAGE Foundation, Inc., a non-profit educational charity, announces a new fund raising drive to support their service to Equine Interactive Counseling programs. The Future of the Industry drive seeks to educate horse industry business on how they can help now to increase the financial stability of their industry in the future. The drive targets breeders, professional trainers and instructors, and support businesses like feed suppliers, tack stores, veterinarians and farriers, truck and trailer dealers. Each of these businesses has experienced the volatile nature of the horse industry. Supporters of the drive contribute one thousand dollars and will benefit in the future as a million potential clients come to the marketplace through Equine Interactive Counseling™ programs in the next decade. Supporters will also receive some quick benefits in the recognition through press releases, listing of their products and services in the referral directory of this Internet site, membership in the ADVANTAGE Foundation Futures Society, and other recognition activities. |
