North American Riding for the Handicapped Association

• NARHA is a professional organization which promotes ethical and therapeutic equine activities through education and communication and sets standards and is involved in research for people with and without disabilities.
• Their purpose is to promote the rehabilitation of individuals with physical, psychological and learning disabilities through equine-facilitated activities and to help establish therapeutic riding centers.
• Their goal is to help support related medical research and train and certify therapeutic riding instructors and provide affordable liability insurance.
• Currently there are over 600 operating centers in forty-eight states and Canada.