Ranch Good Days, a program for at risk girls with equine therapy, here in Central Texas

Over the last year I have been working with a wonderful woman, Donna Otabachian, Ph.D., who is the Director of Ranch Good Days, a program that has developed to meet the needs of unwanted, overlooked, and at risk girls from the ages of 13-21.

This program is similar to Cal Farley's Boys Ranch with the focus to provide young women with individualized learning through meaningful development and experiences.

Donna's Ranch Good Day program helps the girls achieve life long skills as well as build holistic values through mind, spirit, and character development. Donna has a Masters in Psychology and a Doctorate in Educational Administration.

Part of the Ranch Good Day's program utilizes Equine Assisted Therapy where the young women who have been disconnected emotionally learn vital lessons about nurturing and responsibility working with brood mares, watching and working with the horses as they go from conception to birth and beyond with the mares and foals.

The Ranch Good Days program survives on government grants and private donations and Donna is working on Federal funding and partnered to support Women of Indigenous Cultures.

Ranch Good Days has moved from Colorado to Texas and has set up temporarily at a friend and supporter's ranch in Williamson County and hopes to purchase a ranch that will support the projects and programs, as well as targeted growth, in the future somewhere near Florence which is just north of Georgetown/Austin.

I am privledged to be working with Donna and her girls, and look forward to locating the perfect ranch for them as well as becoming more involved in the fund raising that is necessary to keep the Ranch Good Days program in place, to help the girls currently in the program as well as girls that will need Ranch Good Days in the future! If you would like more information on how you might be able to help please feel free to contact either me or Donna directly.