Discover the joy and wellbeing that riding horses can bring!

Upcoming Benefit: Tacos for a Change at La Roma 8/23

 

Join us at La Roma on Sunday, August 23rd for an afternoon of delicious tacos, community spirit, and giving back.
Your support helps feed and care for our horses, maintain our facilities, and provide adaptive equipment that makes horseback riding accessible to individuals with disabilities. When you support Horses for a Change, you're helping create confidence, independence, healing, and hope. Healing begins with a horse. Hope begins with you!

 

Venue: La Roma Pizza & Tacos | 405 Broadway, Ulster Park, NY 12487
Date: August 23, 2026
Time: 12PM-3PM

 

Your ticket includes an afternoon packed with activities:
🌮Delicious tacos and complimentary food & drinks
✨Exciting raffles with great prizes
✨Silent auction featuring unique local items and experiences
🐎Learn about dressage and why it benefits both horses and riders
✨Games and crafts for children

 

Can't make it in person, but still looking to help make a difference? Secure your "virtual" ticket here: https://bit.ly/45rEnzS(opens in new tab) .

Horses for a Change provides high quality riding instruction for individuals of all ages, experience, abilities and backgrounds at Frog Hollow Farm in the Hudson Valley.

We believe, and science confirms, that being on and around horses can bring joy and healing to people of all abilities. Our mission is to make the transformative power of horses accessible to children and adults in need, with a special focus on horse-assisted therapy services.

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Here's How We Help

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Lessons

Whether you’re a raw beginner, want to improve your skills, or training for a competition, we’ll help you get to the next level.

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Therapeutic Riding

Struggling with a physical, learning, or developmental disability? We can help you develop confidence, well being, and even life skills in a gentle way.

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Youth Riding Weeks

Does your child or teen love horses? Treat them to full immersion in horsemanship for their next summer or school-year break.

“We are thankful to Nancy Rosen and her wonderful equine and human teachers for the most wonderful place to become a rider of skill and caring.”

Discover animal friends and skills you didn’t know you had!

Horses are incredible, intelligent, and responsive creatures. Take care of them and they’ll take care of you… there’s a reason they’ve been human companions for centuries!
But spending time riding and caring for horses is more than just fun—it can help you mentally, emotionally, and physically.

A horse's soothing rhythm, strength, and warmth improve your circulation and muscle tone. Meanwhile, the discipline you get from caring for your mount benefits your mind and spirit, and helps nurture your ability to take on responsibility and feel confident in yourself.

Riding and caring for horses has been proven to:

  • Reduce anxiety and boost self-esteem
  • Teach patience and focus
  • Build relationships and improve communication
  • Provide physical activity in a way that is fun and engaging

With your support we can make more stories like these together.

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