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NARHA Region 8
Home Page Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas |
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Regional
Representative:
Deborah Studyvin hfhnwa@aol.com (479)
795-0570 Let your State Chairs and Region Representative know of your changes in email, phone numbers or mailing address. We want give you the latest news. |
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2007 NARHA Region 8 Award Winners |
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NARHA
Region 8 Instructor of the Year |
NARHA Region 8 Horse
of the Year |
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NARHA Region 8
Volunteer of the Year |
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Harry Hall, maker of quality equestrienne clothing, has made a generous donation of their wonderful riding breeches to each of the NARHA Regions. Region 8 has decided to use the 280 pairs of breeches we received to help with region expenses. These breeches retail from $80 to $120. We are offering them to our membership for the low price of $25 plus $7.50 shipping and handling. At this price you can afford several pairs! The sizes, styles and
colors include: Please send your
requests and/or questions to Cindy Thomas, email
CST1800@aol.com Debbie Studyvin |
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Update on Louisiana NARHA Centers Affected by Hurricane Katrina While in Louisiana for the annual Louisiana Therapeutic Riding Association meeting January 26-27, 2008, I had the opportunity to visit with several folks from centers that had been affected by Hurricane Katrina. Most are back to business as usual serving their clients and growing their programs. All are extremely grateful for the generosity of the NARHA Membership with the creation of the Katrina Catastrophe Fund. I heard over and over that the centers would have never survived if it weren’t for the grants they received to help get them back on their feet. They had months of no income but their expenses continued to pile up for horse care, damage repairs, utilities, etc. For those who gave to the Catastrophe Fund, please know that you made a huge difference for these centers. Without your help, many of them would have had to close their doors. With the creation
of the new NARHA Catastrophe Fund NARHA Centers across the nation
who find themselves in crisis or experience a disaster now have
somewhere to go for help. |
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NARHA Certified Instructors Effective January 1, 2004, all NARHA Certified Instructors MUST have 20 hours of continuing education in order to maintain instructor status. Compliance forms for 2006 will be available at the 2007 LTRA meeting. Forms may be sent to NARHA at any time the 20 hours have been completed: you do not have to wait until the end of the year to submit your form. |
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Wow! Region 8 is Really Growing Region 8 consists of NARHA Centers in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas. There has been a tremendous growth of new NARHA Centers in our region since late 2007. It is so exciting to see the interest in therapeutic equine assisted activities flourish. Here in Northwest Arkansas our center, Horses for Healing, receives many calls each month from folks in our area who have heard about NARHA and want to know what it takes to start a center. We are always happy to let them come to visit to see what we are doing and to “pick our brains.” When we started our center over 17 years ago there were no centers close to us. I always wanted to visit other centers but our budget wouldn’t allow for travel. When we finally could afford to attend Regional and National Conferences we were able to visit some of the hosting centers where we learned many things that we could use back at home. I am certain that all NARHA Centers receive these same kinds of calls and it is so important to our industry that we take advantage of these wonderful networking opportunities. I am always amazed how the NARHA Centers are all so willing to share their knowledge and resources. Following is a list of the new NARHA Centers in Region 8 that joined from November 2007 through February 2008. Join me in welcoming them to Region 8 and try to find an opportunity to visit soon. You might just learn something. I hope that I didn’t leave anyone off. - Debbie Studyvin
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Malinda Smith has once again agreed to be the Arkansas NARHA State Chair replacing Patricia Weldon who is unable to serve due to illness. Malinda has served before as State Chair and is easily recognized with her big cowboy hat and NARHA T-shirt at equine events across the state. We all hope that Patricia gets well soon. She can be reassured that Arkansas is in the capable hands of Malinda in her absence.
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Lone Star Therapeutic Equestrian Network LSTEN Mission: To provide networking and educational opportunities to members and organizations of the therapeutic riding industry in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The LSTEN Board continues to fulfill the mission with their guidance and support to the LSTEN Conference Host Center. |
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