Program:
Horsemanship for persons with disabilities
- Budget:
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$19,300
- Category:
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Recreation & Sports
- Population Served:
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Disabled, General or Disability Unspecified
Program Description:
Currently teaching youth and adults with disabilities and youth-at-risk to ride and care for horses. Our riders compete in four horse shows annually. The adjudicated youth community service program continues to demonstrate a 98% success rate.
Program Long-Term Success:
Providing 295 lessons in 2010 with, 4 athletes competing in the Aldine FFA show, 13 athletes competing in 41 events at Top Hands, 9 eligible for Special Olympics Area and 5 for Chapter games. As always they competed well.
Program Short-Term Success:
Athletes enjoy the experience of riding a horse. Later they get to compete.
Balance, listening, control, and overall improvement are observed and documented.
Program Success Monitored by:
Instructor and Technical Director (currently the President)
Program Success Examples:
A person with autism who is able to speak. Another who can relax enough to complete tasks.
A youth who walked with assistance and now walks and runs alone.
A person who spent life lying down and is now able to sit on his bed to watch television.
A person with emotional challenges who is able to interact appropriately around the horses.
Youth without disabilities engaged in major conversations with persons with disabilities, both enjoying their time together. Observers not knowing them would not know who was disabled.
Between 2000 and 2010, 139 athletes competed in 568 events, earning 117 first, 116 second, 102 third, 79 fourth, 54 fifth, 42 sixth, 8 seventh, 7 eighth, and 43 participation awards
Program:
Adjudicated Community Service
- Budget:
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$100
- Category:
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Crime & Legal
- Population Served:
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Program Description:
Youth adjudicated because of offenses committed in or around schools serve their community service with us cleaning the facility, maintaining fence lines, and sometimes caring for the horses. Our success rate is 97%.
Program Long-Term Success:
Program Short-Term Success:
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Program:
NG Makeup
- Budget:
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$100
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
Students of Nimitz High School who passed their classes but received no credit because they failed to attend class for a sufficient number of hours, have the opportunity to experience the real world by volunteering with us and recouping their credits at school. Success rate 100%.
Program Long-Term Success:
Based on the information garnered in the first six months of 2011, Nimitz High School has chosen this program for their students who have not attended school thus not earning their credits.
Program Short-Term Success:
Tracking between January and June 2011, 117 students raked, shoveled, removed grass from the arena, or sanded rust off a horse trailer for three straight hours in full sun. All the while they observed persons with disabilities riding horses and volunteers serving others with a smile. NG students also had to briefly discuss their situation and future outlook.
Program Success Monitored by:
Nimitz High School Administrator and President of Dream Catcher Stables.
Program Success Examples:
Student who is both outspoken and a class disturbance was tardy nearly every day, until spending three hours at Dream Catcher. After that experience, student was compliant, on time, with only a few outbursts that the teacher was able to redirect.