Help support our students by volunteering during therapeutic riding lessons! Therapeutic riding lessons are horseback riding lessons for people with disabilities. Therapeutic riding promotes strength, balance, flexibility, and coordination. The human-horse interaction also promotes confidence, self- esteem, problem solving, and emotional regulation.
Volunteers are responsible for grooming and tacking horses for lessons, and side walking or leading horses during lessons. Side walkers provide physical, social, and mental support for riders as they walk along side the student. Horse leaders manage the horses during the lesson.
Currently, we are offering lessons on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights.
In order to get started as a lesson volunteer, the first step is to attend volunteer orientation, or if you would like to begin sooner, you may join any session of lessons as a volunteer shadow to one of our mentor volunteers. Mentor volunteers, along with the instructors for the class will help guide you through the process of volunteering for lessons.
If interested in this opportunity, please respond to this post.
