- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
Make a difference for our Military Family Members
ORGANIZATION: Bridges Crossings
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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11 people are interested
To help out with daily tasks taking care of the horses. Stalls, grooming, walking horses.
More opportunities with Bridges Crossings
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Bridges Crossings
Location:
3158 Midland Road, Midland, VA 22728, US
Mission Statement
Introduction Bridges Crossings is dedicated to transforming lives of scared and wounded Veterans, Active Duty and their Family Members through equine interaction, therapeutic riding and providing long term job opportunities. Bridges Crossings is also willing to provide services to Government, public and corporate agency personnel affected by stress from daily life. Everyone has challenges such as High stress, high burn out rates, in private sector employment. Our team is unique as they are Veterans, have been to war, and have lost fellow military members. They can relate to those with scars and wounds from serving our country.
Description
Vision Statement
Bridges Crossings programs are dedicated to help Veterans, Active Duty and their Family Members through physical and therapeutic interactions with horses. All our programs will provide a positive environment for Veterans, Active Duty, and their Family Members, government, public, and corporate agencies, as well. Bridges Crossings encourages all organizations to utilize our services for team building and lowering stress levels. Equine Therapeutic Riding has been proven to show a positive health benefit by lowering risk of heart attacks, stress and increase one’s quality of life.
Bridges Crossings, goal is to help and heal wounds and scars Veterans, Active Duty, and their Family Members have incurred while serving and protecting our country. Our hope is to accomplished this through equine therapeutic riding. Programs like our have shown to reduce the risk of suicide among Veterans, Active Duty and their Family Members. Our program give all participants a place to belong and can talk about their experiences. Our team has benefitted from our program, and our team members can relate, as they have served our country and are Veterans.
Our farm is available to the government, public and corporate agency personnel who need therapeutic riding or stress release. We do not discriminate against anyone regardless of whether they have served our country or not. Everyone in our community can benefit by having less stress in their lives.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
3158 Midland RoadMidland, VA 22728
DATE POSTED
April 14, 2017
SKILLS
- Outdoor Recreation
- Mental Health
- Equestrian
- Counseling / Mental Health
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 15