Proposal:Social facility=equine assisted centre

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Social facility=equine assisted centre
Proposal status: Proposed (under way)
Proposed by: Codesurfer
Tagging: social_facility=equine_assisted_centre
Applies to: node area
Definition: A facility run by a community outreach organization (non-profit, private, educational, or faith-based) that offers equine-assisted services.
Statistics:

Rendered as: Picture of a social facility hand + horse
Draft started: 2024-03-09
RFC start: 2024-03-09

Proposal

This proposal introduces a new tag, Tag:social facility=equine assisted centre, to identify a facility run by a community outreach organization[1] (non-profit, private, educational, or faith-based) that offers equine-assisted services (EAS).

What are Equine-Assisted Centers?

Equine-assisted centres/centers provide equine-assisted services to participants involving horses. These programs cater to various needs, including adaptive riding, physical therapy, mental health support, and personal development.

The physical facility should have a suitable space (e.g., an open field, riding arena, round pen, indoor arena, barn) where the equine-assisted services occur.

Community Outreach Organizations

The U.S. Equestrian Foundation (USEF) defines equine-assisted centers as Community Outreach Organizations[1] which:

  • have a mission to improve access to horses and opportunity to experience equestrian sport;
  • focus on education (mounted, unmounted, supplementary educational benefits beyond equestrian sport skills (e.g., practical horse care, school support, literacy, self-care skills, etc.); and
  • offer therapeutic riding and equine-assisted therapy programs.

De Santis et al. (2018)[2] mapped animal assisted providers in Italy, with more than half of them (57%) listed as associations involved in social promotion or amateur sport clubs, often non‑profit.

What are Equine-Assisted Services?

Equine-assisted services (EAS) fall into two main categories: Equine-assisted activities (EAA)[3][4][5][6] and equine-assisted therapies (EAT)[7][8][9][10][11]

  • EAA - includes adaptive riding, interactive vaulting, therapeutic carriage driving, and other horse-related activities (e.g., groundwork, grooming and stable management, horsemanship, reading to a horse, and equine-facilitated leadership, also known as team building) [4][12]
  • EAT - includes hippotherapy and equine-assisted psychotherapy[4][12]

Social workers, physiotherapists, psychologists, teachers, and counselors successfully use equine-assisted services for patients with different cognitive, behavioral, physical, and psychological modalities[10]. Recent studies have found improvements in fine and gross motor skills, cognitive function, and emotional well-being after these sessions.[13][14]

Community Need for the Proposed Tag

There are over 1,000 officially-recognized equine-assisted centers globally which are not mapped as offering equine-assisted services in OSM or not tagged appropriately in OSM[15][16][17]. The current state of mapping EAS facilities outside of OSM is fragmented by regional interests. There is no single source of Findable and Accessible (FAIR) data for EAS facilities.

Equine-Assisted Services Associations
  • Equine Assisted Therapy Association Of South Africa - A non-profit organization that advocates for and builds awareness of hippotherapy and other equine assisted therapies within South Africa and surrounding areas.[18]
  • Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association (EAGALA) - 500 Member Centers. EGALA cites 49,945 clients served in 40 countries.[19]
  • EQUURA Terapias Ecuestres - Una Asociación nacional sin ánimo de lucro inscrita en el Registro Nacional de Asociaciones.[20]
  • Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH International) - 813 Member Centers. PATH cites 53,399 clients served in 22 countries.[21]
  • Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) - Over 400 riding centres all over the United Kingdom.[22]
  • Syndicat Interprofessionnel des Praticiens de la Médiation Equine (SIPME) - 76 Locations, 65 practitioners, and 9 organizations within France.[23]
Educational Intuitions Offering Equine-Assisted Services
  • The Equine Center for Learning (Lansing School District, Lansing, Michigan, United States) is an educational provider that offers equine-assisted services to Lansing residents and surrounding communities[24].
  • The St. Joseph’s Equine Therapy Center provides equine assisted services to Native American students attending the St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota, United States [25].
  • Mississippi State University Equine Assisted Services (Starkville, Mississippi, United States) provides equine assisted services and equine-assisted learning for groups with special needs.[26]

Benefits

By adding this tag, we can better map and recognize these valuable facilities within the OpenStreetMap ecosystem. Sustained use of this tag in the future could support open-access derivative mapping services and products such as the open access UMap shown here UMap of Equine-Assisted Centers

Tagging

Tag:amenity=social facility is already defined for any place where social services are conducted. This is a proposed subtag for facilities run by non-profit organizations, private foundations, educational, or faith-based organizations for equine-assisted services.

This tag is not appropriate to use for concierge, mobile, or temporary equine-assisted services offered at an equestrian facility or a where people go in their spare time and practice horse riding[27]. The tag is not appropriate to use for hospitals or assisted living facilities which may offer seasonal hippotherapy services to patients or residents.[28]

How to Map

Additional Tags

  • Key:social facility:for Add if the facility serves a particular target group (e.g., disabled, disease, child, veterans, seniors).

Current Tagging

  • The proposed subtag, which started as an any tag you like (ATYL) in 2024, uses the British English term for center (i.e., centre) following OSM guidelines.


Applicability Considerations:

  • Follows the "one feature, one OSM element" guidance.
  • Identifies the facility that provides equine-assisted activities (EAS) as a social service.
  • Is verifiable by individual mappers as currently operating and providing services.
  • Does not conflict with established leisure keys for horseback riding and riding centres.
  • Does not conflict with healthcare keys as it includes all types of EAS.
  • Enables searching of equine-assisted centres/centers by other applications.
  • Encompasses all types of EAS within a centre/center.

Results from OSM Tag / Feature Status Search

Current as of Mar 9, 2024

  • Abandoned: Not found
  • Archived: Not found
  • Canceled: See cancelled proposal and discussions under Healthcare:speciality.
  • Draft: Present, this proposal
  • Inactive: Not found
  • Obsoleted: Not found
  • Rejected: Not found
  • Undefined or Invalid: Not found

Examples

Node (where the facility boundary is not known):

Way (where the facility boundary is known):

Rendering

  • Current social facility icon of hands and a heart
  • New Social facility icon with an hand and a horse.
  • Other suggestions welcome.

Features/Pages Affected

  • Tag:healthcare:speciality=hippotherapy




External discussions

Comments

Please comment on the discussion page.

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 US Equestrian Foundation (USEF). Community Outreach Organizations should have a mission to improve access to horses and opportunity to experience equestrian sport.[1]
  2. ↑ De Santis, M., Contalbrigo, L., Simonato, M., Ruzza, M., Toson, M., & Farina, L. (2018). Animal assisted interventions in practice: Mapping Italian providers. Veterinária italiana, 54(4), 323-332.
  3. ↑ Lanning, Beth A., et al. "Effects of equine assisted activities on autism spectrum disorder." Journal of autism and developmental disorders 44 (2014): 1897-1907.[2]
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Acri, Mary, et al. "Equine-assisted activities and therapies: enhancing the social worker’s armamentarium." Work 35.5 (2016): 603-612.
  5. ↑ Almasloukh, Khalid Bandar. "Equine-assisted activities and therapies: State-of-the-art review." Nursing Science Quarterly 35.1 (2022): 92-100.[3]
  6. ↑ Bator, Damian, et al. "Effectiveness of Equine Assisted Activities or Therapies in relation to mental illness and mental disorders-a review." Journal of Education, Health and Sport 10.6 (2020): 309-320.
  7. ↑ Malinowski K, Yee C, Tevlin JM, Birks EK, Durando MM, Pournajafi-Nazarloo H, Cavaiola AA, McKeever KH. The Effects of Equine Assisted Therapy on Plasma Cortisol and Oxytocin Concentrations and Heart Rate Variability in Horses and Measures of Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans. J Equine Vet Sci. 2018 May;64:17-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jevs.2018.01.011. Epub 2018 Feb 12. PMID: 30973147.[4]
  8. ↑ Wood W, Alm K, Benjamin J, Thomas L, Anderson D, Pohl L, Kane M. Optimal Terminology for Services in the United States That Incorporate Horses to Benefit People: A Consensus Document. J Altern Complement Med. 2021 Jan;27(1):88-95. doi: 10.1089/acm.2020.0415. Epub 2020 Nov 26. PMID: 33252244.[5]
  9. ↑ Trzmiel, Tomasz, et al. "Equine assisted activities and therapies in children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and a meta-analysis." Complementary therapies in medicine 42 (2019): 104-113.[6]
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Ayala, M.D.; Carrillo, A.; Iniesta, P.; Ferrer, P. Pilot Study of the Influence of Equine Assisted Therapy on Physiological and Behavioral Parameters Related to Welfare of Horses and Patients. Animals 2021, 11, 3527. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11123527
  11. ↑ White-Lewis S. Equine-assisted therapies using horses as healers: A concept analysis. Nurs Open. 2019 Sep 27;7(1):58-67. doi: 10.1002/nop2.377. PMID: 31871691; PMCID: PMC6917924.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Gabriels, Robin L., et al. "Pilot study measuring the effects of therapeutic horseback riding on school-age children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders." Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 6.2 (2012): 578-588.
  13. ↑ Stergiou AN, Mattila-Rautiainen S, Varvarousis DN, Tzoufi M, Plyta P, Beris A, Ploumis A. The efficacy of Equine Assisted Therapy intervention in gross motor function, performance, and spasticity in children with Cerebral Palsy. Front Vet Sci. 2023 Aug 15;10:1203481. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1203481. PMID: 37649564; PMCID: PMC10464617.
  14. ↑ Rigby BR, Davis RW, Bittner MD, Harwell RW, Leek EJ, Johnson GA, Nichols DL. Changes in Motor Skill Proficiency After Equine-Assisted Activities and Brain-Building Tasks in Youth With Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Front Vet Sci. 2020 Jan 31;7:22. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00022. PMID: 32083104; PMCID: PMC7004954.
  15. ↑ EAGALA - About Us
  16. ↑ PATH International Fact Sheet 2020
  17. ↑ Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA)
  18. ↑ [7]
  19. ↑ EAGALA - About Us
  20. ↑ Equura - Quienes somos
  21. ↑ PATH International Fact Sheet 2020
  22. ↑ Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) - About Us
  23. ↑ Syndicat Interprofessionnel des Praticiens de la Médiation Equine (SIPME)
  24. ↑ The Equine Center for Learning at the Lansing School District
  25. ↑ Equine Therapy at St. Joseph’s Indian School
  26. ↑ [8]
  27. ↑ Riding
  28. ↑ Article on San Giovanni Battista Hospital in Rome, Italy
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