Because there should be NO LIMIT on the futures of people facing challenges!
Click HERE to read all about the enclosed arena now being built!
How You Can Help:
It takes a special person to Blaze a Trail to the FUTURE for someone else. Monthly supporters make sure volunteers, riders, horses, the barn and certified instructors are in place to keep Turning Point turning.
Click HERE to join the team!
Join Turning Point in looking ahead! The Board plus staff, volunteers, parents and long time supporters just finished a Strategic Plan for the next five years.
Click HERE to read all about the future that can Build Futures in even more ways
OR VOLUNTEER to MAKE a DIFFERENCE!
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
Learn about Volunteering by clicking HERE or the VOLUNTEER tab above
Understand COVID Procedures and sign the form.
Complete FORMS to bring to Orientation
Review the Fall 2021 Schedule to choose a session time you like
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:
Ongoing…….. Special Covid Procedures
Fall 2021…… Virtual Volunteer Orientation
Fall 2021…….
Volunteer Orientation: Ongoing throughout the Fall Semester
Click VOLUNTEER to get all the information you need to get started!
Sessions Underway NOW!
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
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:
Turning Point is Building More Than Futures!
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!”
Have a Blast and Help!
Come join us Saturday, October 5th for our annual “Ridin’ Shotgun” Clayshoot at the Payne County Fairgrounds.
Dreams are riding on your support.
