“At Equine Journeys we live and teach the ways of the past to ensure a better future”
— Equine Journeys’ mission statement
“Agriculture is wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”
— Thomas Jefferson in a letter to George Washington
Equine Journeys is both a short-term adolescent residential treatment program and a young adult residential support program in Loa, Utah providing services to adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 and young adults between the ages of 18 and 30 with behavioral problems and substance abuse issues.
Program Highlights
- Program Duration: Individually determined based on the needs of each student. Most students require 6 to 12 months
- Licensed by Utah Department of Human Services
- Unique equine-based treatment model
- Traditional ranch environment in rural Utah
Equine Journeys utilizes a unique and highly effective equine and program-based treatment model which has been developed by the owners over many years of work with adolescents in program settings. We are a small, family-oriented and operated treatment program with a maximum capacity of 20 residents, small therapist case loads, and a focus on individual attention and treatment for our residents. We, the owners of Equine Journeys, have all worked for larger, more institutionalized adolescent programs and came to realize that, while those larger programs could be effective, they lacked the personal touch, individualized attention (one on one), and relationship-based family atmosphere that smaller programs with fewer residents could provide. So, we developed a program which has all of the expertise and therapeutic rigor offered by larger programs but in a more comfortable, familiar, and personalized setting. Read more about our program…
“I don’t want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”
— Ronald Reagan
“Equine Journeys is not the first and only treatment program to have an equine-based program but it is the first and only treatment program to do equine work the right way.”
— Chad Lyman, Director of Ranch Operations
