Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program

In honor of Father's Day, we want to introduce you to one of our longtime father-daughter volunteer pairs: Mitch and Leah Martin. There are many reasons people choose to volunteer at the Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program (NVTRP). Some do it because they love working with the riders. Others because…

Congratulations to NVTRP volunteer, Emma Houston, who won the Youth Volunteer of the Year Award at the Fairfax County Volunteer Service Awards! Check out the article in the Connection newspaper that features a photo of Sharon Bulova and Supervisor Pat Herrity presenting Emma the Youth Volunteer award. Emma has volunteered at NVTRP since 2015.…

I am absolutely thrilled to share that we have received a $500,000 gift to our Build to Thrive Campaign from Jacque Trefry, one of NVTRP’s founders, and her husband, LtGen (R) Richard Trefry. Jacque volunteered tirelessly with the program in our early years, when NVTRP was known as the Farifax 4-H…

It is with great joy that I share with you the wonderful news NVTRP received last week---a $500,000 donation towards the Build to Thrive project is being given by anonymous supporters of NVTRP. This extraordinarily generous gift will be made to NVTRP by the end of the year. In other…

On Friday, October 14, 2016, more than a dozen deputies from the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office joined forces with a group of young people from Alternative House to take part in a series of equine-assisted learning activities at Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program’s farm in Clifton, VA. “With the attention…