ATRC's Ground School Program focuses on learning ground based horsemanship skills adapted to the participant's needs. This program, implemented in 2020, focuses on helping participants gain life skills through hands on experiential learning as they work through a series of tasks and achievements with their horse. This program is beneficial to participants who might not be ready to ride yet, who are looking for an increased horse human emotional/social bond, who might be over our mounted lesson weight limit (185lbs) but want to work towards riding, and much more. These lessons follow an 18-20 skill curriculum and offer skills in grooming and leading and build up to more advanced skills such as lunging, round penning, and desensitization if appropriate. Each participant will work on mastery of a skill over a series of lessons before testing out of the skill and moving on to the next.  The ground program is a great way for participants to work on new skills that relate back to their own lives/ self care and develop the horse human bond. 

To Apply: Fill out the Participant Application below and return:

2024 Participant Application

Please mail the completed application to: 
Albany Therapeutic Riding Center, Inc.
6640 Fuller Station Road, Altamont, NY 12009