Empowering Strides is growing! After six and a half years we are truly excited to be expanding our offerings. Learn more about our new instructor and her program below.

Please welcome Diana Janetzki! Diana will be bringing her therapeutic horseback riding and spelling to communicate skills to a newly formed equine assisted learning program with Empowering Strides.

Diana and our EAL program will focus on unreliably and nonspeaking individuals who are working to build body awareness and body control through purposeful motor movements. This program will be primarily on the ground, working in the barn or with a horse to develop specific skills tailored to each client.

Learn more about Diana on our instructors page: Here

Learn more about our EAL program on our programs page: Here

We are enrolling clients now for Thursday afternoon/evenings. Clients can contact Laura@EmpoweringStrides.com to set up their first session or ask any questions.

We are so excited to announce that we have received a grant from Jordan Fund for the second year! This will allow us to offer scholarships to cover the cost difference for rider’s with DDA/DSHS funding.

The payment structure for our services does not adequately cover our cost and therefore, we have been unable to accept riders with DDA/DSHS funding. This grant has given us the opportunity to cover that gap and allow us to accept riders!

Last year worked out very well, so we have decided that we will do the same structure and divide the grant to give three different riders a scholarship for ten lessons each. To qualify for this scholarship you must have funding and available hours. Your case manager will have to confirm this before any scholarship money is used. As well, the Jordan Fund requires that this grant money be used for children with ‘permanent and significant’ disabilities.

BUT WAIT! This #GivingTuesday we were able to raise $560! That means, we are able to offer a FOURTH scholarship this year! We want to send a huge thank you to everyone who donated and shared our fundraiser.

Applications will be closing on Sunday, December 29th.

To apply for a scholarship follow this link to our Google survey:

CLOSED

To learn more about the Jordan Fund visit their website:

www.jordanfund.org

I am so excited to announce that we have received a grant from Jordan Fund that will allow us to offer scholarships to cover the cost difference for rider’s with DDA/DSHS funding.

The payment structure for our services does not adequately cover our cost and therefore, I have been unable to accept riders with DDA/DSHS funding. This grant has given us the opportunity to cover that gap and allow us to accept some riders!

Our Board of Directors has decided that we will divide the grant to give three different riders a scholarship for ten lessons each. To qualify for this scholarship you must have funding and available hours. Your case manager will have to confirm this before any scholarship money is used. As well, the Jordan Fund requires that this grant money be used for children with ‘permanent and significant’ disabilities.

Applications will be closing on Wednesday, March 20th.

To apply for a scholarship follow this link to our Google survey:

CLOSED

To learn more about the Jordan Fund visit their website:

www.jordanfund.org

Hello Everyone!

Thank you so much for visiting my page to learn more about Empowering Strides. I’m very excited to start this journey. For sixteen years I’ve had an undying passion for horses and I can’t wait to share that with the world. I’ll be adding more blogs shortly, stay tuned!