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!...
Read MoreChinook 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
Read MoreAs 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...
Read MoreOne 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreA special horse named Mojo! In celebration of his 19th birthday, we share this story of what a wonderful therapy horse this retired 17.2 hand rescued race horse, retired dressage show horse is! This past summer we had an 8-year-old boy who arrived at the barn and refused to...
Read MoreWe have been working with this 10 year old boy for 12 weeks. We implemented a program called EquiPower, Treating Trauma with the Power and Sensitivity of Horses. It is a CBT, trauma focused program. This child was not able to express himself in terms of his needs and...
Read MoreMark your calendars for May 3rd – May 4th. It will be a day for everyone to support our campaign at https://www.yellowstonegives.org/organizations/chinook-horses. #YVGives2018
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Read MoreSo I have been thinking a lot since this last school shooting (who hasn’t been?) …..It started off with typing on my friend Hollye Dexter’s Facebook page, who is an amazingly tireless advocate for sensible gun control, “what can I do?” Then I thought this isn’t only just a gun control...
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