Troubled Teens and Horses Help Each Other
In my search of newspapers for current events dealing with teenagers, I came across a wonderful story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
This story concerns a young woman who was a troubled teen herself. She spent time in foster care and a home for troubled teens. Distrustful of people she turned to horses, from whom she “…learned patience and nurturing and caring…”
Her name is Lissa Corcoran and she now runs a program called Flying Change Equine Therapy. This particular article is involved more with the efforts of the program to save one of its horses, which was injured, than with the program itself. However, the program website at http://flyingchange.org gives more in-depth information on the non-profit organization-such as the services it provides and why horses make wonderful partners in therapy.
Give the article a read and check out their website. For troubled teens, such as Lissa herself, who may get along better with animals than with people, this type of program could work miracles.
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September 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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