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Helping economically disadvantaged, as well as mentally and physically handicapped individuals

About Us

One of the most graceful and powerful moves in dressage, the flying change, is the mid-air transition requiring the same strength, confidence, and patience necessary for the building of Self and taking control of one's life - the very essence of therapeutic riding.

Facilities

Our facility has an indoor riding arena for all-weather use as well as outdoor riding areas with beautiful open fields to add a variety of riding experiences. Our instructors along with our carefully chosen and highly trained gentle horses and ponies are the mainstay of our center.

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Services

We are North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) accredited and certified. We are a private 501C3 organization.

The Center serves 60 - 80 diagnosed handicapped children and adults ages three years to senior adulthood each week and over three hundred individuals annually. Clients are referred through state agencies, rehabilitation centers, group homes, and schools. FCCTR staff works closely with families and medical/educational/social services specialists and educators already involved with our clients to develop equine facilitated programming.

Over 70% of handicapped clients served at Flying Changes were low income/Medicare eligible. The Center depends on contributions and donations from outside sources to enable us to continue to help our economically disadvantaged, as well as mentally and physically handicapped individuals. We actively fund raise to maintain a scholarship fund so that income eligible children may access services on a consistent basis. Scholarship guidelines are available at the Center office.