{"id":6984,"date":"2025-01-28T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T20:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=6984"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:08:14","slug":"integrating-animal-assisted-interventions-in-care-farming-licensed-therapy-therapeutic-practices","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/resource\/integrating-animal-assisted-interventions-in-care-farming-licensed-therapy-therapeutic-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Animal-Assisted Interventions in Care Farming: Licensed Therapy + Therapeutic Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A session exploring <strong>Integrating Animal-Assisted Interventions in Care Farming: Licensed Therapy + Therapeutic Practices<\/strong> was offered at the 2025 Care Farming Network National Conference.&nbsp;This session explored how care farms provide licensed therapy and therapeutic experiences through animal-assisted interventions (AAI). Each farmer shared how animals are integrated into their therapeutic practices and presented an overview of their care farm, described their operations, and discussed the successes and challenges they face in delivering AAI services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussion featured inspiring presentations from two care farmers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Amy Hublou of <a href=\"https:\/\/imaginethatfarm.org\/\">Imagine That Farm <\/a>(ID)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jen Zeitler of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letsgoatbuffalo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Let&#8217;s Goat Buffalo<\/a> and Open Farms NY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link to Slide Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1L3sL6HMlJjDM1zFL-1cezI_zTSN10myzVhTlNUIeTpk\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amy Hublou presentation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1DZUlG9yBuJhOHKGCb6tfLSUdxaudAYCr6UArYJvywEU\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jen Zeitler presentation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" data-id=\"6988\" src=\"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Amy-Hublou.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Amy-Hublou.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Amy-Hublou-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Amy-Hublou-240x160.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Amy Hublou, Imagine That Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" data-id=\"6989\" src=\"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler-240x159.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jen-Zeitler.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jen Zeitler, Let&#8217;s Goat Buffalo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6994,"template":"","tags":[211,13,220,219],"topic":[55],"class_list":["post-6984","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2025-conference","tag-animal-assisted-intervention","tag-imagine-that-farm","tag-lets-goat-buffalo","topic-what-is-care-farming"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Integrating Animal-Assisted Interventions in Care Farming: Licensed Therapy + Therapeutic Practices - Care Farming Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/carefarmingnetwork.org\/resource\/integrating-animal-assisted-interventions-in-care-farming-licensed-therapy-therapeutic-practices\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Integrating Animal-Assisted Interventions in Care Farming: Licensed Therapy + Therapeutic Practices - Care Farming Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A session exploring Integrating Animal-Assisted Interventions in Care Farming: Licensed Therapy + Therapeutic Practices was offered at the 2025 Care Farming Network National Conference.&nbsp;This session explored how care farms provide licensed therapy and therapeutic experiences through animal-assisted interventions (AAI). 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