VOLUNTEER to MAKE a DIFFERENCE!
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
Learn about Volunteering by clicking HERE or the VOLUNTEER tab above
Complete FORMS to bring to Orientation or your first session.
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
Safety First:
2022…… Virtual Volunteer Orientation
2022:
Volunteer Orientation: Ongoing throughout the Semester
Click VOLUNTEER to get all the information you need to get started!
Sessions Underway NOW!
2022 Sponsorships
FREEDOM, Independence, EMPOWERMENT, Perserverance, and Courage are more than words at Turning Point.
Corporate sponsors make it possible for those life skills to bloom.
Click HERE to see ways your company can get involved.
Help yourself to a handy 2022 Desk Calendar with pictures and stories about the Life of Baxter on every page. It’s guaranteed to make you smile!
Click HERE to order yours for only $15. All proceeds go to the Turning Point horses.
Futures are Riding
on Your Support!
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:
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”
Baxter’s Book Delivery: To EVERY First Grader
No One Trick Pony Baxter, Turning Point’s mini therapy horse, went back to school in a Big Way in March. He took books to EVERY First Grader at Sangre, Westwood, Richmond and Skyline. That’s 14 classroom and 4 libraries! The First Book distribution is a partnership between Turning Point Ranch and Pi Beta Phi sororityContinue reading “Baxter’s Book Delivery: To EVERY First Grader”
Leaping into Spring 2022 With BIG Changes to Share
Spring 2022 Newsletter So many exciting changes can hardly fit it in one Newsletter, but each picture tells the story of horses building futures in the expanded facility. Read all about it by clicking: Spring 2022 Newsletter.
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