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CONTACT: Mark Sexton, Communications Coordinator
PHONE: (352) 374-5204; CELL: (352) 283-2317
EMAIL: msexton@alachuacounty.us

For Immediate Release



Healing Through Horses

9/29/2009 12:00 AM

ALACHUA COUNTY, FL - Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center is partnering with HorseMpower and HOPE (HOrses helping People) to offer a free equine-facilitated psychotherapy group for adult female survivors of sexual violence.  The group will use human-horse interactions and activities to work through victimization issues.  Participants need not have experience with horses.  Sessions will be conducted by Dr. Marilyn Sokolof, Licensed Psychologist and Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor, and Memree Stuart, Certified Therapeutic Riding Instructor, and will be held at HOPE's therapeutic riding facility in Archer. The group will begin October 30, 2009, and end January 22, 2010.

Click here for the workshop flyer.

For more information, Contact Rita Lawrence, Sexual Assault Program Manager at 352-264-6764 or toll free at 1-866-252-5439.

If you have a disability and need an accommodation in order to participate in a County program, service or public meeting, please contact the Alachua County Equal Opportunity Office at (352)374-5275 at least 3 business days prior to the event. TTY users please call 711 (Florida Relay Service).

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