Strides offers adaptive riding, hippotherapy, services for veterans and first responders as well as private lessons to the Tri-Cities, WA community. Provide our veterans and individuals with disabilities the opportunity to foster independence, dignity, and self esteem through riding and working with horses.how we accomplish this…-Provide individualized therapeutic riding programs to those with special needs and the general public.-Improve and maximize the quality of life of those with special needs, and other individuals, and promote their overall well-being by imparting to them the knowledge and means to optimize their own health.-Provide a safe and structured riding program for those with special needs and other individuals.-To encourage personal achievement, increase self-esteem and individual goals.-Promote physical development, e.g., posture, balance, attention and range of motion.