Animal Therapies Ltd Podcast
Aboriginal youth reaping the benefits of equine-assisted learning in the Kimberley
<p>It's a sad indictment on Australia that despite comprising just 6.6% of the nation's population, Aboriginal youth are 27 times more likely to be in juvenile detention than non-Indigenous young people. </p><p>This over-representation reflects a history of trauma, cultural dispossession, and forced displacement and assimilation that have affected them, their parents, families and communities.</p><p>Over successive decades, western models of intervention have failed to nudge that statistic in a more positive direction. </p><p>However, an equine-assisted learning program, designed and operated by Aboriginal people for Aboriginal people in Western Australia's Kimberley region, is delivering some extraordinary re...
