Special Equestrian Riding Therapy (SERT) was founded in 1987 by a group of concerned individuals and parents of children with disabilities. They were seeking a way to improve the quality of their children's lives using horses. Horsemanship provided riders with the opportunity to practice skills that they needed to face fears, communicate feelings, and access strengths. Riders with special needs and families who spent time with us said that being involved with SERT was something special in their lives.

It has been a privilege to provide this experience to as many children as possible over the past 33 years. It has also been our honor to provide a safe, caring, and lasting home for the 34 therapy horses that have made the SERT program possible.

Going forward, SERT will now be the retirement home for the last of the therapy horses that served the children of the special needs community. The SERT horses have worked tirelessly over the years and the volunteers of SERT want to ensure that each of these horses can live out their remaining years with the comfort and dignity they have earned.