Chase came to Chinook Horses at the beginning of the summer, referred to us by his social worker. He had recently gone to live with an Auntie and was really struggling to control violent outbursts towards family members. “Taking it out on the wrong person,” is how his foster...

Last year, we completed our report on the research done in collaboration with the Billings Public Schools and University of Mary, Dept. of Occupational Therapy on the outcomes of our equine-facilitated learning program Social Thinking Groups! Click HERE to read the report.

See our Annual Report for 2020 HERE!

Last October, we acquired our first herd of ponies. Their owner, was elderly man who had them their entire lives, but he could no longer care for them. He had seen Chinook Horses on the news and thought we could make the perfect home for them.  When Abigail learned...

In early 2016, a co-worker passed along information about Kyanne Wear to Abigail who was just starting out with equine-assisted therapy services. At that time, Kyanne was branching out into private practice. She had heard of equine-assisted therapy and was interested to learn more, so she jumped when Abigail...

Chinook Horses was profiled in the February 2021 edition of Billings Lifestyle Magazine. Though some details may be a little off — our fearless founder Abigail is from Manhattan, not Brooklyn — Emma Perley wonderfully captured our work and mission. Thank you Billings Lifestyle Mag. for the beautiful feature!...

Chinook Horses’ very own Abigail Hornik was profiled in the January 2021 edition of Yellowstone Valley Woman Magazine. Thank you YVW Mag for the beautiful feature! Click here to read Abigail’s story and learn how Chinook Horses came to be! View the full edition on their website at yellowstonevalleywoman.com

As you know, with COVID19, our services came to a halt for some time with the rest of the world.  Thanks to the loving support of our donors and foundations such as the Billings Community Foundation, we have been able to reopen our barn doors and resume safely working...

One of the first conversations Abigail and I had when I came to Chinook Horses was about telling our story.  At the time, I was naïvely thinking we were talking about grant writing and telling our stories through profound moments in the arena between client and horse.  After completing...

This was the seventh session for the client. She is an intellectually challenged twenty-one-year-old with the cognitive ability of a fifteen-year-old. She was referred to us by her career support center. She was having difficulty getting along with her coworkers and struggled with voice modulation when she stressed. She...