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Notice for the
Therapeutic Riding Assistant Course

We are currently developing a Therapeutic Riding Assistant Course to be able to offer training to our volunteers. Classes will be held weekly and will commence Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm (approximately 1 hour per night). This is an 8 week course and we encourage all volunteers or interested parents to take this course. This course is offered free of charge, all course material will be e-mailed to the participants upon registration (if you require a hard copy of the material, this is a $5.00 cost).

 

Space is limited to eight per class, so please sign up with Suzette Brunner, our Volunteer Co-ordinator ASAP.

 

Subjects covered during the 8 week Therapeutic Riding Assistant - Level 1 Course will include the following:

  • Roles and responsibilities of  riding assistants
  • The importance of trained volunteers to therapeutic riding
  • Safety of the rider, horse and volunteers
  • Colours, breeds, markings, etc.
  • Warmbloods, Coldbloods and Hotbloods
  • Parts of the horse
  • Identifying grooming tools
  • How to groom and why
  • Identifying tack, how to clean tack and why
  • Catching and releasing a horse
  • Proper Leading
  • Proper Sidewalking
  • Mounting and dismounting
  • Correct positioning of rider
  • Arena letters
  • Simple maneuvers - change of rein across the diagonal, half circle with rein change, 20M circle, halt at X, 2 and 3 loop serpentines
  • Horse gaits - walk, trot, canter

 

All participants will be provided with printed material (either hard copy or via e-mail). There will be a hand out for each evening covering the various topics. There will also be demonstrations by our Head Instructor or Assistant Instructors and lots of time for practical hands on experience. Upon completion of the course and the mini quizzes, volunteers will be designated as a TRA - Level 1 on their VTEA name tag. If you do not have the time available for the full course, you may challenge the quizzes to obtain your TRA - Level 1. The goal of this program is to educate our volunteers and eventually have all volunteers designated as either TRA - Level 1 or Level 2 (TRA - Level 2 will hopefully be offered during the Winter 2010 Session). Again, we recommend all volunteers/parents take advantage of this course.

 

If you have subjects/areas that you would like to see added to our TRA Courses - please feel free to pass along ideas to Suzette Brunner, our Volunteer Co-ordinator. Subjects being considered for TRA - Level 2 are horse feed, equine first aid/TPR, tacking up horses (saddles/bridles - parts of), braiding/show turn-out, polos/shipping bandages/stable bandages, horse conformation, various rider disabilities, proper use of fly masks/blankets/rainsheets, bathing/trimming, lungeing and diseases/vaccines.

 

We are also hoping in the future to bring in various coaches/farriers/veterinarians/riders for in-house seminars/demonstrations.

 
   
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