Equine Therapy AZ, "Horses with Wings"

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Animals
Children & Youth
People with Disabilities
Sports & Recreation
Veterans & Military Families

Location

3220 north craycroft rdTucson, AZ 85712 United States

Website:

http://www.azequinetherapy.org/

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http://www.azequinetherapy.org/

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Will you touch the lives of others through our horses?

Flexible Schedule | TUCSON, AZ 85748

Do you enjoy working with children and horses? Apply to be a volunteer with Equine Therapy Arizona, Inc./ Horses with Wings! We are looking for compasionate, dedicated, and vivatious volunteers to help care for therapeutic riding horses and be side-walkers for therapeutic riding lessons! We also need volunteers to become partners with our horses as the lead and work individually with the horses during the lessons. Sidewalkers work directly with our rides to encourage them to play games on horseback and to help them grow in social skills and communication along with physical development. We are in need of people that just want to help feed and groom the horses. They rely on us to 're-fill ' them after they give so much to the riders!!! We offer a flexible schedule that works with you!

Date Posted: 2024-04-01
Organized and like horses and kids? Volunteer Coordinator

Flexible Schedule | Tucson, AZ 85748

Volunteer coordinator for a Therapeutic Horseback riding program Duties: As our Volunteer coordinator you will help to ensure that the interests of volunteers are served and that the volunteer organization remains well staffed. You will coordinate and schedule volunteers on an ongoing basis or organize single events, and keep existing volunteers informed via newsletters or other communications. Another aspect of your position will be to work to actively recruit volunteers for our organization. The volunteer coordinator must also be outgoing and communicate effectively with a variety of people. Because you will work for mission-driven nonprofit organization, volunteer coordinators must also adhere to the values of our organization and convey its purpose to others. You may be asked to coordinate the schedules of the volunteers along with the scheduling the riding sessions for our clients. We need a minimum of two volunteers per ride (horse handler/ side walker), but most often three volunteers per ride. Informative e-mails and newsletters are often sent to volunteers to keep them abreast of happenings within our organization and informed of additional opportunities to participate. The Volunteer coordinator must make an effort to ensure that individual volunteers feel comfortable with their placements and fully understand their responsibilities. You will schedule the initial meeting and observation of a riding session or the execution of barn chores (stalls, feeding, grooming etc.) once the volunteer paperwork has been files, they will be placed on a schedule. Our riding sessions are early mornings and early evenings (late afternoons). You will need to be present at the ranch for approximately 5 hours per week. You will work closely with the Therapeutic Riding Staff Director and the Executive Director. Duties: Manage the volunteer match.com site Contact new families and old to organize and schedules sessions Keep volunteers and family informed of schedules and changes Schedule the riding sessions with Riding Coordinator Send out schedules to volunteers

Date Posted: 2024-03-04
Do you like horses? - Volunteer with an equine therapist!

Flexible Schedule | TUCSON, AZ 85748

If you have both a passion for animals and helping children with autism, then we have such a unique opportunity for you to be a part of. Come join our team of volunteers working every day to make a difference in both our horses and childrens lives as either a sidewalker or a horse handler during one of our lessons. There are other opportunites as well, so dont hesistate to ask how we can use your specific interests. Volunteers will be expected to come to meetings and workshops, where our staff will teach basic horse handling techniques in order for volunteers to feel comfortable enough working around the animals. Our main goal outside of providing an awesome experience to the children and adults in the lessons, is to keep everyone involved including horses safe. We currently have lessons going on 5 times a week, mornings and evenings.

Date Posted: 2024-04-11
Do you like horses? - Can you help others achieve balance in their lives? - Volunteer!

Flexible Schedule | TUCSON, AZ 85748

Do you like giving back to your community, and feeling appreciated when you do. There are so many volunteering opportunites out there and we are grateful that you took the time to read about our organization. We are a therapeutic riding program whose focus is on the military and children with developmental disabilities, particularly Autism. What we need the most however are people to walk side by side with the horses during the lesson and help the horse handler maintain safety for the child. We need volunteers who can promise coming in at least once a week for a five or six week block of time to help with lessons. Volunteers will be expected to come to meetings and workshops, where our staff will teach basic horse handling techniques in order for volunteers to feel comfortable enough working around the animals. Our main goal outside of providing an awesome experience to the children and adults in the lessons, is to keep everyone involved including horses safe.

Date Posted: 2024-04-01
Are you a teen with a passion for giving and a love for animals?

Flexible Schedule | tucson, AZ 85748

We are a small therapeutic riding program located on the east side of Tucson looking to help teens like you have a fulfilling experience doing things you love. Even if you don't have previous experience with horses, this is the perfect place to get some. Volunteers will be expected to come to meetings and workshops, where our staff will teach basic horse handling techniques in order for volunteers to feel comfortable enough working around the animals. Our main goal outside of providing an awesome experience to the children and adults in the lessons, is to keep everyone involved including horses safe. We are putting together a group of young adults to tackle different tasks around our ranch. Email us and let us know what your skills and interests are so we can put you in the right opportunity :). We follow the CDC guidelines.

Date Posted: 2024-04-01

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Mission Statement

'Horses with Wings’ goal is to improve the lives of riders and equine enthusiasts of all ages using a range of therapeutic equine facilitated activities and exercises. There are so many documented benefits to this therapy with significant improvement in both physical and psychological areas as well as responses to social environments. Balance, muscle strength, communication and a higher self esteem, self image and improved interpersonal skills are all things that can be gained by choosing to participate in this exciting type of therapy. It takes the individual outside of the typical office setting and makes working towards therapy goals seem less like work and more like fun.

Description

'Horses with Wings’ is a local therapeutic riding program located in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded, and is directed, by Michelle Mastrangelo M. Ed., BCBA L-BA. Michelle is also the Lead Trainer.

Currently, we have eight amazing equine partners working with our 'Horses with Wings’ family. Cowboy, Sedona, Dynamite, Reba, Dana, Baxter, Fritz and Iceman. These wonderful miracle-working creatures, paired with our devoted and caring staff, makes for a great learning and growing environment for individuals and families.

Therapeutic Riding is a growing and widely-accepted treatment for rehabilitating a range of physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. Conditions served include: cerebral palsy, spina bifida, neuromuscular disorders, post-traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD, and cognitive disorders. Riders experience increased self-confidence and improvement in strength, balance, coordination, attention span, language and social skills.

Ms. Mastrangelo is a member of the Professional Association the Therapeutic Horsemenship International (PATH) and working toward her Therapeutic Riding Instructor Certification. She and her staff work with very creative ways to increase communication skills, social skills along with motor development and balance of all riding participants. Each participant has specific goals and objectives developed for them that are designed to decrease their area of need and increase their strengths. Some clients are more interested in working on the ground and not riding while some clients enjoy the ground work and the riding.

Reviews

by Kaitlin C. from AZ (2020-08-23 21:58:47.0)

It was amazing getting to work with the animals and get hands on experience at caring for horses. However at the time I volunteered it was difficult to get in touch with the coordinators outside of the initial meeting.

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by Adrienne V. (2020-03-12 15:20:00.0)

I drove across town and spent a couple of hours learning the chores. I explained which days and hours I would be able to help out and waited eagerly for the schedule but they NEVER called me back. No response, no explanation. I guess they really aren't in need of volunteers after all.

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