My Nonprofit Reviews
Ame V.
Review for The Right Step, Inc., Littleton, CO, USA
I have now been teaching with The Right Step for a full year and volunteering for almost 2 years. With their help, I completed my certification to become a PATH Int'l Therapeutic Riding Instructor at the Registered level and together we achieved PATH Int'l Premier Accredited Certification. The program is growing and always looking for ways to improve. We have amazing riders, families, volunteers and horses allowing the program to operate 7 days a week helping so many with special needs. I am so happy to have all these wonderful people and animals in my life and can't wait to extend the family as the program grows in the future.
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How does this organization compare with others in the same sector?
Quite well
How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
Life-changing
Will you recommend this organization to others?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2013
Review for The Right Step, Inc., Littleton, CO, USA
I started volunteering with The Right Step in Dec of 2011. I instantly fell in love with the program and started working on becoming a PATH Int'l Certified Instructor so I could help teach the kids (I'm halfway to achieving this goal thanks to The Right Step). The horses used to help our students are some of the older horses out at Coventry Farms, the same horses I grew up riding as a kid at the same Farm. Getting to work with these horses again and watch them as they bring something special into the lives of people with a wide range of mental and physical disabilities that come to enjoy the benefits of the program is so incredible. This program allows the horses to have another chance to work and feel useful again as they are too sore to jump and handle the full work load of the other side of things there. Some of them have even spoken up in their own way to say they are completely done with Coventry Farms and only want to be used with The Right Step. The clients these horses help are amazing. I have had the worked with some that would not talk when they started and after a few months were using full sentences and you were lucky to get a word in of your own. I have also had the privilege of working with clients in wheelchairs and watching them develop strength and balance to the point where they can now hold themselves upright unassisted and independently control the horse. For 30 minutes those clients are completely free and moving on their own with the biggest smiles I've ever seen. Watching the horses and clients work together brings me and the other volunteers I've worked with so much joy and in itself a therapy for us, motivation to keep going both in the ring with them and outside of it in our everyday lives.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
A lot
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
