Non Profit Wish List

Our Needs

Ride On is currently looking for volunteers to assist kids with disabilities during their therapeutic horseback riding sessions. Volunteers are needed to help groom and tack horses, walk beside riders with disabilities or lead horses during their lessons. Volunteers also assist with general barn duties and ranch maintenance. Ride On teaches 190 riders with disabilities every week from 2 ranches in Chatsworth and Thousand Oaks and volunteers are absolutely vital - without them the kids cannot ride. You do not need experience with horses or disabilities - Ride On can teach you everything you need to know. Anyone aged 14 years or older can volunteer. Along with knowing that you really are making a difference in the life of a child with a disability, Ride On offers some great perks when you volunteer. After 30 hours of service, Ride On offers a series of horseback riding lessons and they also offer continuing education in horse care, stable management and disability awareness. Ride On also honors volunteers annually with a great picnic and recognition awards. If you would like more information about volunteering or about Ride On please call 805.375.9078 or visit the website www.rideon.org.

Overview

Ride On provides equine related therapy to to children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. We serve over 180 riders each week at two ranches in Newbury Park and Chatsworth. Ride On offers therapeutic riding which emphasizes recreation, riding skills and fun on horseback and Hippotherapy which always invloves a physical, speech or occupational therapist.

Our History

Ride On was founded in 1994 and is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation.

Other

Financial donations are vital to our program. Riders are charged for lessons but fees only cover 25% of our operating costs. Ride On welcomes donations - please visit our website for more information.

Our Needs

Hospice volunteers to provide support to our terminally ill patients and their families.
Office support volunteer for our Thousand Oaks office to assist with our monthly bereavement mailings. Minimum age for volunteering is 16 years of age. As a hospice volunteer you play a key role on the hospice team in promoting quality of life and holistic care for individuals in the last phase of their lives. Volunteering with hospice is a unique opportunity to reach out and share your love and compassion with others. With an understanding and acceptance of your own feelings regarding death and dying, your role as a volunteer is to be available with emotional support and respite to hospice patients and their families. We ask you to commit to two or more hours, incl. travel, per week. Volunteers visit our patients in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, or in patients' own homes. You talk and share stories with patients, hold their hands, take them for walks, read to them, listen, record life stories, make bereavement support calls or are just there for the patient and the family. We need volunteers in the areas of Oak Park, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Camarillo, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Oxnard, Calabasas, Ventura, Fillmore, Port Hueneme, Ojai and Santa Paula. Training is provided free of charge. For more information please contact Dagmar Jacobson, Volunteer Coordinator, at 1-800-499-6664 or djacobson@assistedca.com.

Overview

Hospice is both a service and a philosophy. The primary goal of hospice is to provide comprehensive care to terminally ill patients and their families. Hospice provides a caring sanctuary, nurturing the dying, supporting the living and caring for the commuity. A very important part of the components of care for hospice is the interdisciplinary approach. Here a specialized team; consisting of physician, nurse, social worker, chaplain, and often times a HHA and a volunteer, is providing for the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and his/he family. The volunteer's role is to be available with comfort and support for the patient and family. A volunteer will be assigned a patient who has been assessed by the team for having a volunteer need. Often the volunteer will make weekly social visits, depending of need, to provide social support, friendly visits or respite care to the pt. and or family. The goal of hospice is for the patient to experience quality of life at the end of life; to die peacefully and with dignity.

Our History

Assisted Home Hospice Foundation was established to provide residents of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties with educational, professional and financial assistance focused on end-of-life-care options.

Other

Assisted Home Hospice's commitment to quality of life at the end of life is best expressed by our mission statement, "Hands to Help, Hearts to Care." We serve as an excellent community resource offering personal hands-on care.

Our Needs

We are in need of bikes with gears for children in Fillmore so that we may continue to make a difference. This will help us give kids healthy alternatives to joining a "crew" or gang. We take them to college campuses, go on hikes, and have also started a bike club. This is for little ones all the way up to late teens who want to join, but can't afford even used bikes. So, please help us in donating bikes, new or old, as long as they work and have gears.

Overview

The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships with mentors that have a measurable impact on youth.

Our History

In 1904, a young New York City court clerk named Ernest Coulter was seeing more and more boys come through his courtroom. He recognized that caring adults could help many of these kids stay out of trouble, and he set out to find volunteers. That marked the beginning of the Big Brothers movement. By 1916, Big Brothers had spread to 96 cities across the country.

At around the same time, the members of a group called Ladies of Charity were befriending girls who had come through the New York Children's Court. That group would later become Catholic Big Sisters.

Both groups continued to work independently until 1977, when Big Brothers of America and Big Sisters International joined forces and became Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

More than a century later, Big Brothers Big Sisters remains true to our founders' vision of bringing caring mentors into the lives of children. Big Brothers Big Sisters currently operates in all 50 states ? and in 12 countries around the world!

Our Needs

desk
computer (minus monitor)

Overview

Assistance and education for youth, individuals and families through free pregnancy testing, free STD testing, Single Parenting Support, Post Abortion Support and Sexual Health Education.

Our History

Been in the Conejo Valley for 22 years; formerly the Conejo Valley Crisis Pregnancy Center. We are located in the Community Conscience Building ("Under One Roof" Building)

Other

We do help men as well as women.