Horses & Horizons Therapeutic Learning Center Inc. is looking for volunteers to help with its special program of therapeutic horseback riding for children and adults with special needs.

Horses & Horizons is a registered nonprofit organization, located 10 miles south of Tamaqua, near Route 309. It offers therapeutic riding lessons on Monday and Wednesday evenings from May through October.Lesson volunteers must be at least 14 years old, in good health, and able to walk for an hour at a time. They must successfully complete a volunteer training session, provided by Horses & Horizons.While experience with horses and/or people with disabilities is helpful, it is not necessary. Horses & Horizons also welcomes the volunteer assistance of allied health fields professionals and people with horse experience.A required volunteer training session for lesson volunteers will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at the center.In addition to lesson volunteers, volunteers are needed to assist with other duties.Contact Janie Millerat 570-386-4280 (wintsprg@ptd.net) or Elaine Smith at 570-386-5679 (elshhtlc1@gmail.com).For additional information visit

www.horsesandhorizons.org.