GIVE to a year end push to:
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- Build scholarships through HIGH FIVE! & SADDLE UP!
- Support the GREAT HORSES who build futures!
- Invest in the PEOPLE and PLACE where the magic happens
Futures are Riding
on Your Support!
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
The HorseTales Literacy Program with Highland Park Elementary, a Title One School in Stillwater, gets first graders excited about reading and learning
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
Keeping the Barn Safe:
Fall 2020…….. Special Covid Procedures Begin
Fall 2020.……Virtual Volunteer Orientation
Spring 2021…….
Volunteer Orientation: Jan 25 6pm to 8pm
Leader Training: Jan 27 6p to 8pm
Feed Team Training: Jan 29 6pm to 8pm
Sessions Begin: Feb 1
“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
Turning Point partners the magic of horses with tools to help people facing physical, mental, emotional or socio-economic challenges build successful futures.
Mission Statement
Our Barn in Numbers
897
Miles the Feed Team walks each month caring for horses
1344
Books given to First Graders in seven years of Literacy Programs
20
Medals won by 15 riders at Special Olympics Equestrian
1506
Children and Adults touched in Community Outreach events in 2019
News From the Barn:
Riders Meet Covid Challenge!
Spring 2020 Newsletter:
Here’s the latest from a very challenging Spring at Turning Point. Click the headline to read all about it!
Champions Ride In 2020!
Eleven Turning Point Riders brought home medals in Trail at Special Olympics Equestrian this year and it wasn’t easy! Emily has competed for six years and finally brought home a GOLD on Doc. Kody on Isaiah and Gwen on Derby won BRONZE medals. The event went “Virtual” to meet Covid safety precautions, so all runsContinue reading “Champions Ride In 2020!”
Remember When… “Horse Salad” was on the Menu?
How does a “Salad Bar for Horses” spark communication and mobility for folks at the Life Center? It’s not as simple as it sounds…
