Partners For Progress, NFP

Partners for Progress, NFP, (PFP) is a 501(c)(3) organization located in Wauconda, Illinois. It is a premier therapeutic riding center providing horse-based therapy to residents in Northeastern Illinois and Southeastern Wisconsin with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities. Partners For Progress supports over 200 riders per week on 18 therapeutic horses with clinical interventions for functional life gain. Currently, PFP is achieving a 79% goal achievement success rate with their participants. Partners For Progress was created to support individuals with special needs through demanding and stimulating alternative therapeutic programs utilizing horses. These programs allow them to be challenged and become more fully integrated in their homes, schools, and communities. This is provided utilizing occupational and physical therapy programs as prescribed by licensed physical therapists with the assistance of quality trained and maintained horses. Partners for Progress supports a national traveling show team that participates in competition with the National Snaffle Bit Association and the American Quarter Horse Association. PFP is the only therapeutic riding center within the states of Illinois and Wisconsin with such a team. A Special Olympics riding team and a veteran's riding program - Heroes on Horses - is also supported. Founded in 2005, PFP has successfully implemented goal-oriented therapy programs and tracking processes to assist participants to overcome fears, break down walls, and achieve monumental milestones. PFP provides scholarships to individuals unable to afford interventional therapies. PFP has taken on some of their participants as volunteers AND employees, and works with various organizations and schools in the Lake County, Illinois, area. Partners For Progress does this so that all individuals with special needs have the opportunity to receive the unmatched benefits of their horse-assisted, goal-oriented therapy programs.