Tachirense Family Foundation concluded Triage for the “Love in Action” Equine Therapy Program

Published at: 01/02/2024 12:10 PM

At the headquarters of the El Niño Simón Foundation in the state of Táchira, the first triage was carried out for boys, girls and young people up to the age of 17, to participate in the Equine Therapy Program “Love in Action”, carried out by the Tachirense Family Foundation, coordinated by the Lcda. Karem Duran de Bernal.

According to Durán, the recruitment was carried out with the intervention of a multidisciplinary team made up of a psychopedagogue, an equine therapist, a pediatrician, a general practitioner, a physiatrist, a speech therapist, in addition to the intervention of a genetic counselor and the team of nurses, who had the support of the staff of Idenna, Educational Defenders, José Gregorio Hernández Mission.

The president pointed out that initially 10 cases will be taken for participation in the “Love in Action” Equine Therapy Program, which must meet certain admission criteria, such as the fact that the child must be compulsorily enrolled in school, must weigh less than 60 kilograms, must not present any medical contraindications, and the remaining 26 will be taken into account for the second, third and fourth cycles, so as not to have to carry out a new triage, and even if necessary, they will receive other care such as physiatry, language therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, psychopedagogy, as the case may be, free of charge.

The first group of the “Love in Action” Equine Therapy Program is scheduled to begin on February 8, at the headquarters of Asogata, but over the course of the year there are estimated to be four cycles to be completed, hence the importance of the support of the different institutions and collaborators, the El Niño Simón Regional Foundation, in the triage process, Asogata, which provides us with its facilities to carry out the therapies, the Equisalud foundations, FundaZoo, which lend us the mares, in addition to the equipment and the equine therapist, the Idenna who advises us on a legal level with children and adolescents, among others.

TÁCHIRA GOVERNORATE