Mendon, N.Y. \u2014 A state funding boost is set to help a local nonprofit expand access to its therapeutic programs that connect people with nature, horses and horticulture.<\/p>\n
State leaders announced $900,000 in funding Wednesday for the EquiCenter<\/a> in Mendon, which serves the local community, especially people living with disabilities, through the therapeutic power of animals and the outdoors.<\/p>\n The money will support upgrades and daily operations, including plans to build a permanent, semi-climate-controlled structure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re on 200 acres and sometimes it’s hard to make 200 acres accessible to everyone, and we\u2019re not proposing making 200 acres accessible, but certainly the areas that are used by the participants to make sure that all of our programs, whether it’s on the farm or it’s getting from one building to another that anyone that needs assistance with accessibility, like the assemblymember said, needs smoother surfaces, that it\u2019s accessible to them,\u201d said EquiCenter Executive Director Katherine Hatch.<\/p>\n The nonprofit opened in 2004 and has been expanding its services ever since.<\/p>\n BACKGROUND: Celebrating 20+ years with EquiCenter<\/a> | EquiCenter celebrates grand opening of new arena<\/a> | Bright Spot: Horses and ‘ducts’<\/a><\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendon, N.Y. \u2014 A state funding boost is set to help a local nonprofit expand access to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-320613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}