Adaptive Horsemanship

About

Join us at Tahoe Donner’s Alder Creek Adventure Center in Truckee, CA for adaptive adaptive horsemanship lessons! Participants will learn horsemanship skills in an environment designed to fit their needs and learning styles in order to optimize their quality of quality of life. Depending on the individual’s function and needs, activities are either mounted (on the horse) or unmounted (off the horse).

Adaptive Horsemanship has many benefits including:

• Improves sense of wellbeing
• Enhances body awareness
• Improves social skills and communication
• Helps with problem solving
• Enhances emotional regulation

This is program is coordinated by Irina Fedulow Plante, PT DPT NCS. Click HERE to to see all staff profiles.

2025 Schedule & Rates

If cost is a barrier to your ability to participate, please apply for a financial assistance.

Policies

SICKNESS POLICY: For the protection of staff, volunteers and all other participants, we ask that anyone who has or exhibits any of the following please refrain from participating in our programs or activities:

• Fever
• Headache
• Sore throat
• Lice
• Nausea
• Diarrhea
• Earache
• Chicken Pox
• Congestion
• Cough
• Runny Nose
• Any other contagious illnesses/diseases including influenza or COVID-19
  
  Many of our participants have compromised immune systems, and exposure to viral and/or bacterial infection could have serious consequences. If Achieve Tahoe determines that a participant is too sick to participate, parents or emergency contacts of that person will be notified and are responsible for pick-up within a reasonable time-period.

CANCELLATION POLICY: Please give notice of cancellation at least 24 hours in advance to receive an Achieve Tahoe credit, which can be used towards any future Achieve Tahoe Program.  

If you are sick, or feeling sick, please contact Achieve Tahoe to cancel your reservation as far in advance as possible, and before the start of the program. In the case of illness, you can either:

• Request a credit, which can be used towards any future Achieve Tahoe Program
• Request a refund, minus at 15% processing fee.

Essential Eligibility Criteria for Participation

For the health and safety of our community, in order to participate in the Achieve Tahoe Equestrian Program, a participant must meet the criteria listed below.

• If the participant has had a traumatic injury, or surgery/medical treatments that affected your activities of daily living in the past 12 months, they can only participate with a doctor’s release stating that they have been cleared to participate in high-risk sports.
• If help is needed with bladder or bowel routine, feeding tube, or administering prescription medications a care provider or family member will be present to assist.
• Participant must be able to breathe independently without any medical devices that sustain breathing.
• For participants with Down Syndrome, the participant must have been examined by a physician for Neurologic Symptoms of Atlantoaxial Instability, found the symptoms to be absent, and has been cleared to participate in high risk sports.
• The minimum age for participation in the equestrian program is 5.

Location

The equestrian program takes place at Tahoe Donner’s Alder Creek Adventure Center (15275 Alder Creek Rd, Truckee, CA 96161) in Truckee, CA.

Sign Up

Please click on the drop down below that applies to how you would like to sign-up, and follow all instructions to make reservations for Adaptive Horsemanship.

Once all forms have been submitted and processed and you have attended your virtual evaluation, you will be able to call to make reservations. Reservations will open on April 27, 2025 at 2 pm PST.

If you have any questions about this program or the reservations process, please call us for assistance at 530.581.4161 x 6.