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MUSTANG ADOPTION ACADEMY

A registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.

A FREE mental health program for & with our American Veterans, in service of gentling wild mustangs through brain-based horsemanship

NO HORSE EXPERIENCE NECESSARY

WATCH A QUICK 7 MINUTE VIDEO ABOUT OUR PROGRAM HERE:

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program flyer here:

What Our Veterans Say:

“This program has been the missing link in my recovery. Traditional therapy, AA and other methods of healing have given me strength, but it’s the connection with the horses that has brought me real healing. For the first time, the pieces of my life feel like they’re finally fitting together.”

“As I came in to work with the mustangs, I began to see parts of myself again that really had been disappeared for, well, since I came back home."

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What We Do & Why We Do It

Since WWII, we have lost more veterans to suicide on American soil than to casualties of war.

Read that again...

Let it sink in.

Our facility is located in rural Southwest Indiana—where veteran suicide rates are even HIGHER than the already staggering national average. These veteran communities are underserved and isolated.

Forgotten.

At the same time, more than 70,000 wild mustangs remain on public rangelands designed to sustain just 26,000, with another 46,000 in holding facilities. Too often, these horses are misunderstood, mishandled, and at risk of entering the slaughter pipeline.

That's where we come in. We are working at the intersection of both crises.

The Mustangs of Service program is NOT your traditional talk therapy program.

It is however a mental health program that teaches & utilizes the scientifically backed principles of brain-based horsemanship &trauma-informed equine assisted healing services with our Veterans, in the act of gentling wild Mustangs.

This form of horsemanship can be taught to & utilized by someone who has never before been around horses. And yet even the most experienced trainers & owners can also benefit from incorporating the basic tenants of brain-based horsemanship.

Teaching your horses to self-down regulate is their form of wellness & mental health, and it is equally as important for them as it is for us humans, perhaps even more so as they are prey animals who make every decision based around safety.