American Association for Horsemanship Safety
Hosting a Riding Instructor Clinic
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When you host a clinic, we will post the clinic date on the AAHS web site calendar and supply you with a sample flyer along with advertising tips to help promote the clinic. Requirements for facilities, horses and suggestions about fee setting information can be found on this page. To schedule a clinic date, call the AAHS office at 866-485-6800 or send an email to: mail@horsemanshipsafety.com. We will send an AAHS-certified clinician to your facility. The clinician is a self-employeed independent contractor; they are not direct employees of the non-profit AAHS organization.The clinician uses and presents the AAHS standardized curriculum: Teaching Safe Horsemanship, Secure Seat, and the clinic packet. The packet includes information not in the text books, such as, equine liability-negligence law, applications, certification descriptions, etc. The host pays the clinician's daily fee plus travel expenses and housing. The clinician's housing may be in a private home or at a hotel. Requirements for the ClinicThe Facility If the facility can not provide accommodations for candidates, then a list of near-by, reasonable priced motels and restaurants should be provided to prospective clinic candidates. Lunch should be scheduled for one hour and can be provided by the host facility or "on your own".
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The Horses There should be one more school horse than there are candidates (in case one horse becomes lame). If the facility is a public stable, the clinic will not use horses for more than a few hours a day if horse use is a problem. The clinician will use one of the horses for a demonstration horse and sometimes a horse is needed for non-riding demonstrations; any horse that will stand quietly will serve that purpose. Gaited horses can not be used for trotting sessions; the movement of a two-beat trot is necessary for clinic exercises. Setting the fee for your clinic.The fee you charge when hosting a clinic should cover the clinician's expenses and the use fee for your facility. Clinicians fees may vary... AAHS charges a fee of $50.00 per candidate for certification, one-year membership, clinic packet and materials. Clinic text books are an additional $40.00, you may purchase them for your candidates or have them purchase their own. You may add the certification fee and materials fee into your clinic fee or have it paid directly to AAHS. For example: Clinician travel,
expenses (housing & meals) & Call the office for exact fees as there are many variables when clinicians set fees. AAHS recommends collecting a 50% deposit five weeks before the clinic start date. This way you can know if there will be enough participation to pay the expenses both before air reservations are made and within a timeframe to secure a lower fare. Payment to AAHS and Clinician By the end of the clinic, two checks are due, one to AAHS and another made out to the clinician. |
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is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) not for profit organization dedicated to promoting safe horsemanship skills through training and education.
AAHS offers a unique, defensible, systematic approach to teaching horsemanship safety.
American Association for Horsemanship Safety
4125 Fish Creek Road,
Estes Park, CO 80517
mail@horsemanshipsafety.com
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