STAT LIGONIER THERAPEUTIC CENTER
HEALING WITH HORSEPOWER
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The highest need that STAT has currently is moving from fair weather operations and services to year round. We are beginning a Capital Campaign and are in need of $500,000 to build a full-service indoor arena for therapy, services and other revenue producing activities. With year round activities and services, STAT will be able to sustain without having to depend on grants-in-aid.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
The Riding Connection
The Riding Connection is an equine-assisted therapy program for children and adults with disabilities. The Riding Connection provides therapy to children in both outdoor and indoor settings. STAT currently has a licensed Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist with the American Hippotherapy Association training and (2) Speech Language Pathologists. We do not take insurance but we can provide a Super Bill for submission to your insurance for reimbursement. The cost is $50 per session. Most participants ride year round, weekly. STAT's CEO, Catherine Markosky, assists parents on a regular basis to apply and submit for individual grants through specific agencies. Many times, these agencies approve fully funded grants.
We offer: hippotherapy, therapeutic riding, equine-assisted group intervention, equine-assisted growth and learning, equine-assisted recreation and workshops.
T180 degrees
T180 is a program to promote, mentor, and inspire youth at risk to participate in group learning, team building, leadership, behavioral interventions, horsemanship skills training, and to learn appropriate social behaviors through group dynamics and hands on experiential learning with the horses. Programs help to build self-worth and self-confidence, improve communication and relationships. The at risk participants are sometimes paired with children enrolled in STAT's riding programs (disabled children) to help inspire responsibility, equality, as well as volunteerism and compassion for individuals with disabilities.
Strides (registered trademark)
Literacy and learning conversation on horseback! a newly developed protocol - for non-verbal children (majority ASD) ages 3 through 17 to learn to read, utilize AAC devices, and participate in equine-assisted therapy, to become verbal, learn social communication and conversation skills, as well as to train parents to use and adopt new skills to crossover into other social opportunities. This program is assisted by licensed PT, OT, and SLPs
Healing With Horsepower for Veterans
A horsemanship and riding program using horses as the tool to heal (OK Corral model)
EQuine Affect (TM)
A newly developed and trademarked (2021) protocol by STAT. EQuine Affect is an equine assisted learning modality that provides lessons with horses (Both mounted and ground) for personal growth and development, specifically emotional intelligence. A two-person professional team and the horses provide 12 weeks of growth and learning. Substance Use Disorders, Veterans are two targeted populations for the EQuine Affect. STAT is currently developing an EQuine Affect for teens.
Behavioral Health for Individuals with Autism
STAT employs 2 licensed behavioral health specialists, both with extensive experience with Autistic individuals. Programming is customized by the individual needs
Where we work
Accreditations
EAGALA Certification 2018
EAGALA CERTIFICATION 2019
EAGALA CERTIFICATION 2020
EAGALA CERTIFICATION 2021
TEIQue 2020
TEIQue 2021
OK CORRAL SERIES - MILTARY 2020
OK CORRAL SERIES - TRAUMA 2021
RELIAS - ATTACHMENT DISORDERS (ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA) 2021
OJJDP NTTAC - SECONDARY TRAUMA AND TRAUMATIC STRESS 2022
RCA ACADEMY FOR ADDICTION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS - INTERVENTION THEORIES AND PRACTICES 2022
VRT - CLINICAL SERIES: SUICIDE PREVENTION 2021
RELIAS - CALMING CHILDREN IN CRISIS 2021
RCA ACADEMY FOR ADDICTION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROS - INTERSECTION OF TRAUMA, SUD, PROCESS ADDICT.. 2021
Affiliations & memberships
United Way Member Agency 2009
Boys and Girls Clubs of America 2010
Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association 2017
North American Riding for the Handicapped Association 2009
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2008
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2009
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2010
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2011
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2012
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2013
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2014
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2015
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2016
AHA, Inc - American Hippotherapy Association 2017
United Way Member Agency 2010
United Way Member Agency 2011
United Way Member Agency 2012
United Way Member Agency 2013
United Way Member Agency 2014
Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International 2015
AHA, Inc. - American Hippotherapy Association 2018
PATH International 2018
EAGALA 2018
PANO 2018
EAGALA 2019
EAGALA 2020
EAGALA 2021
OK CORRAL SERIES 2020
OK CORRAL SERIES 2021
PATH INTL 2019
PATH INTL 2020
PATH INTL 2021
THOMAS INTERNATIONAL 2020
THOMAS INTERNATIONAL 2021
PANO 2021
GPNP 2020
GPNP 2021
PENNSYLVANIA EQUINE COUNCIL 2018
PENNSYLVANIA EQUINE COUNCIL 2019
PENNSYLVANIA EQUINE COUNCIL 2020
PENNSYLVANIA EQUINE COUNCIL 2021
GPNP 2022
PENNSYLVANIA EQUINE COUNCIL 2022
PATH INTERNATIONAL 2022
EAGALA 2022
EAGALA - MILITARY SERVICES 2021
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of children who have the skills necessary to maintain personal health
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Children and youth, Adults, People with disabilities, People with diseases and illnesses
Related Program
The Riding Connection
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
physical, occupational therapy - PROMIS Mobility - General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSE) - Pain Pressure Threshold (PPT) - Tegner - Bruininks Oseretsky mental health therapy - depression scale
Goals & Strategy
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
STAT will continue to provide community programs that serve individuals with special needs, at risk youth, veterans, and alcohol/drug addiction. Our programs include unique and innovative therapeutic and educationally-based activities to enhance a person's abilities, invite learning, improve physical health and fitness, and enhance quality of life for the entire family.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
STAT is now offering EAGALA – a Psychotherapy Treatment Model
STAT's EAGALA Team is a group of professionals incorporating horses to address mental health, personal development, and professional development needs.
Our Approach:
Trauma-informed * Client- centered * Strengths-Based * Solution Oriented
At Risk Youth, PTSD, Trauma, Addiction Recovery, Coaching, Restorative Retreats, and more.
STAT offers EAGALA, Hippotherapy and adaptive riding.
Please visit our website for more information. www.statinc.org
Our Mission – To facilitate alternative and animal assisted therapies to promote and enhance the health, education and quality of life for individuals with health challenges.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
STAT's EAGALA Team:
Mandy Orvosh, MA, LPC, NCC, CCTP, has her Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and she is also a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and has been an EAGALA certified practitioner since 2009. Mandy focuses on Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) and provides a space where clients can share their story and engage in an experiential learning process, using the EAGALA Model. Mandy is passionate about this experiential modality of mental health treatment which incorporates horses in a variety of activities to stimulate emotional growth and learning, with the belief that clients have the best solutions for themselves if given an opportunity to discover them.
Catherine Markosky, is an EAGALA certified Equine Specialist with 10 years of experience working in many different settings combining programming with teens/children and horses. Cat is also the Founder of STAT Inc., and the General Manager of the Ligonier Therapeutic Center. Catherine and her husband Michael together have built the Ligonier Therapeutic Center as a place of healing in Western PA, for all. We can customize your wellness, recovery, or therapy plan by utilizing our large network of professionals and interventions to build the right program, the right team, for your specific need.
Our team is growing and expanding. Charles McClanahan has 34+ years of experience serving at risk youth and people with drug and alcohol abuse/addiction in a therapeutic setting. He's trained in EAGALA, crisis management, is a National Certified Horse Trainer and is a PACTH certified instructor.
Alyssia Marshall-Stewart, OT, AHA Certified. Alyssia manages a group of OTs and PTs who are trained in Hippotherapy. STAT offers outpatient OT, PT and Speech. With a trained volunteer staff, we are able to offer our facility to licensed OTs, PTs and Speech therapists for a fee; to bring their patients to our Center for Hippotherapy.
STAT offers access to life-changing services in the great outdoors, natural settings, with horses, using alternative mind-body interventions -- to provide you with long-term solutions and recovery. Whether it be a physical or an emotional challenge... our programs are client centered and outcome focused.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
STAT will be breaking ground in March 2019 on the Phase II project: a 120' x 208' indoor arena and clinic.
History:
STAT partnered with 8 equestrian centers that provided a variety of equine-assisted activities; including Hippotherapy, Therapeutic Riding, Riding for the Handicapped, EAL/EAP, for children with disabilities, for troubled, challenged, and at-risk teens, siblings of handicapped riders. STAT also started an Autism-Friendly Summer Camp in partnership with the Ligonier Camp & Conference Center. Now STAT owns and operates the Ligonier Therapeutic Center at 24 Stom Road, Ligonier.
STAT supported more than 200 families annually (more than 600 over past 8 years) with full scholarships to cover the cost of riding, camps, and a number of therapeutic activities. STAT has offered pull-in educational-based programs to coincide with equine therapy activities; i.e., we provide non-verbal riders with iPads and 1:1 Speech Pathology to train riders and parents to effectively utilize the iPad as a communication device. STAT supports our partners by offering capital improvements as needed, stipends for interns, program supplies. On occasion, STAT leads or collaborates related research projects.
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STAT LIGONIER THERAPEUTIC CENTER
Board of directorsas of 3/6/2022
Michael Markosky
STAT Inc.
James Wano
Deb Honkus
Carrie Bartley
David Soltesz
Paul Dunlap
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Not applicable
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