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Summer 2007 Timber Trails Centaur Leadership Horse Program
Ages 11-13 Boys & Girls
This past summer, Centaur Leadership partnered with Timber Trails Children’s project to provide three summer sessions to Phoenix youth living below the poverty line. Campers worked with horses to develop self-awareness, self-esteem, communication, team building, leadership and life skills. Campers lived, learned and worked together to develop horsemanship and western riding skills, and skills that could be brought back home and used in daily life.
This program was offered at no cost to campers through Timber Trails Childrens Project |
Youth Leadership Programs '06-'07
We had a great time learning, laughing and riding with all of you this year!
Highlights of this past spring for the Youth Leadership Program included:
- Offering comprehensive Horsemanship and Leadership programs for troops of girls as a vendor for the Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus-Pine Counsil
- Bringing equine-assisted learning programming and activities to the first Oxford Youth Leadership Program (hosted in collaboration by the Oxford Leadership Academy and the Girl Scouts AZC-P)
- Being brought in to develop horse programs that foster growth, personal development and horsemanship skills for 24 kids identified as living in Phoenix below the poverty line this summer through Timber Trails Childrens Project.
- Bringing horses to over 20 "Littles" for the Big Brothers/Big Sisters "Big for a Day" event where CLS volunteers staffed and ran an equine station for the "Littles" to participate in.
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Beginning the initial steps towards creating an experiential-learning curriculum for North Point Expeditionary Learning Academy. We are looking forward to offer equine-based leadership education to their 9th and 10th graders during the next school year!
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Watching all the youth we worked with grow and learn - both for themselves and in their horsemanship skills.
Next year, we are planning even more opportunities that combine the best of leadership development with the power of horses. We are looking forward to continuing to work with the amazing groups of youth that we are already connected to, and also reaching even broader populations of youth, including youth identified specifically by teachers or their community for their high-level of leadership potential, all-male groups, and more diverse populations from all over the country.
We are also looking forward to more of those magic moments feeding the horses as the sun sets behind us, more time running our fingers through the horses mane, and more chances for youth to share the skills they are learning and developing with the younger students and their peers.
Next fall we have decided to limit "open enrollment" programs, and hope to offer even more programs for intact groups of youth. Our hope is that this will allow more youth from all areas to schedule times when they can travel together to Chauncey Ranch, have more focused time learning horsemanship and leadership skills, and allow groups from Prescott to come together to schedule times on Fridays and in evenings. Groups of youth, students, classes, and troops are all encouraged to inquire early about scheduling regular dates and times - Collaborate, carpool, and contact us!
Finally, we are continuing to actively seek ways to increase our Scholarship Fund through fundraisers, grants, and donations to be able to bring these empowering experiences to youth who otherwise can't afford to attend. Please consider supporting the scholarship fund through the donations button on the home page, or through this donations link.
See you in the Fall!!
~The CLS Youth Leadership Program People Staff & Horse Staff
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