Mental Health Awareness for May

Let’s Talk Mental Health!

We take every opportunity to bring awareness to youth mental health and the need to support it.

Tuff Therapeutic Riding Foundation stands to serve youth who are struggling with mental health issues and addictions. Youth from marginalized groups including 2SLGBTQI+ community, youth in the criminal justice system, black and indigenous youth and those who have been victims of sex trafficking.

Being a youth at-risk is a root cause for poverty, addiction, violence, suicide, and dependency on social services and/or interaction with the criminal justice system. Intervention and support such as our therapeutic riding program can change this trajectory.

The youth referred to the program represent one of the most vulnerable populations, who are very much in need of improved access to mental health services.

Equine therapy provides a non-traditional form of mental health support which this population responds well to, rather than to more formal modes of therapy.