For Immediate Release

Contacts:

Pebbles Turbeville, Executive Director, Horses and Humans Research Foundation, exec.director@horsesandhumans.org, http://www.horsesandhumans.org

Roisin Brennan, Executive Directive-Ireland, Federation of Horses in Education and Therapy International AIBSL, https://hetifederation.org/, office@HETIfederation.org

Horses and Humans Research Foundation (HHRF) and Horses in Education and Therapy International (HETI) Announces an Important Joint Research Initiative

HHRF and HETI are pleased to announce their collaboration to study the feasibility of creating a single research platform that will act as a repository for all information pertinent to the field of equine-assisted services. (equine facilitated services?)

HHRF and HETI have overlapping missions and visions, focused on promoting sound practice in the field of equine facilitated interventions, development of the practitioner, and the care, well-being, and role of the equine. Both organizations’ strategic plans emphasize education based on rigorous research, however there is consensus that access to quality research is a global barrier.

In order to close this gap, HHRF and HETI have launced a feasibility study for the development of a central international knowledge bank where global research data can be pooled, organized and easily accessed by all who want to enhance the field of human services that incorporate horses.

More information will be forthcoming and will be available on HHRF and HETI websites as well as through our organizations’ newsletters.

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Horses and Humans Research Foundation (HHRF) is dedicated to funding research to investigate the equine-assisted activities and therapies field. Since its founding, HHRF has awarded over $650,000 in professional research efforts led by fourteen research teams.

HHRF is a non-endowed foundation dependent solely on donations.

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With members in over 45 countries worldwide, the Federation of Horses in Education and Therapy International AISBL (HETI) is a not-for- profit organization established in 1974.

HETI’s mission is to facilitate the worldwide collaboration between organizations and individuals whose objectives are philanthropic, scientific and educational in the field of equine assisted activities and therapies.

HHRF’s Mission

Horses and Humans Research Foundation

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Chagrin Falls, OH 44022