VOLUNTEER to MAKE a DIFFERENCE!
HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO DO: Come to Fall 2022 Orientation! Sept 6, 6pm to 8pm
Learn about Volunteering by clicking HERE or the VOLUNTEER tab above
Complete FORMS to bring to Orientation or your first session.
Come Have a Blast at the Annual Clayshoot!
Futures are Riding on your Support!
Click HERE to register or become a sponsor
What Happens Here:
Therapeutic Riding helps people with challenges to develop muscles, social skills, focus, self control and abilities to live and work in our community
Click HERE to learn about HorseTales Literacy Program with Highland Park Elementary, a Title One School in Stillwater. It gets first graders excited about reading.
Whether taking the mini horses to an assisted living center or bringing trauma survivors to work with horses unmounted, sessions produce new skills
Volunteers
In addition, hundreds of OSU students earn Academic and Community Service Credit along with resume-building skills through volunteer hours at Turning Point
And the results? Read for yourself.
“Amazing Results”
Her behavior is so much better after returning from the horses that I had to redo her evaluation
Teacher
“Look at this Report Card”
My daughter went from bringing home terrible behavior reports to A’s and B’s after bonding with a great volunteer
Mom
“What Are You Doing?”
His physical therapist wanted to know what we were doing differently after riding improved his mobility so much . Mom
Our Barn in Numbers
897
Miles the Feed Team walks each month caring for horses
2389
Books given to First Graders in ten years of Literacy Programs
20
Medals won by 15 riders at Special Olympics Equestrian
2107
Children and Adults touched in Community Outreach events in 2021
News From the Barn:
Larry Wins Again!
Since 2019, Turning Point’s Mini horses, Baxter and Sparky have traveled to The Life Center to visit participants and use their equine magic to boost cognitive, verbal and mobility skills. But this week, five members of the Life Center crew made a field trip to the Ranch. A few made it clear that they wantedContinue reading “Larry Wins Again!”
Hot News from a Busy Barn!
Summer 2022 Newsletter What a Sizzling Summer, but there are so many COOL things going on at Turning Point, we had to share! Read all about it by clicking: Summer 2022 Newsletter.
What a Difference … A Roof Makes & Doors Will
New Arena Opens for Orientation & Classes The “Sky’s No Limit” Campaign successfully funded the long awaited covered arena at Turning Point. But Covid related supply chair issues have made completion challenging! Orientation and the first classes took place under construction lights. But the permanent lighting is now bright as day no matter the time.Continue reading “What a Difference … A Roof Makes & Doors Will”
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