Colorado State University has partnered with My Heroes, a hippotherapy program out of Atlanta and Fort Collins, to help individual patients meet their treatment goals through the use of therapy horses from the Temple Grandin Equine Center. The CSU program also allows for students to get involved with the therapies of local patients, giving them real-world experience in the field.
Molly Madden, a senior health and exercise science student at Colorado State University and volunteer at My Heroes, joined the program her sophomore year and saw a need that has led to advancements in the field of hippotherapy and allowed her to complete her Honors Program undergraduate thesis with the therapy.