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Barn Crew Preview for Counselors and Educators

Friday, March 26, 2027 · 4:30pm to 6:00pm · Free

America/Los_Angeles
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Ninety minutes to decide whether you would send a young person here.

Barn Crew is a free program for young people: real barn work, real horses, and horsemanship instruction, twice a month. It is aimed squarely at the kids who do not usually get offered something like this. But no counselor, teacher, or case manager should refer a child to a place they have never seen.

So come see it. We hold this session at 4:30pm on purpose, because that is the same hour a Barn Crew afternoon is running. You will see the barn as the young people see it, not a cleaned-up version of it.

Hosted by Karl Watson, Founder and Executive Director of Saved by the Saddle. Meet your host

What You Will See

  • The barn, the arena, and the yard where the work happens
  • A walkthrough of an actual Barn Crew afternoon, start to finish
  • The horses the young people work with, including the rescues and how each one arrived
  • How we set up supervision and where the adults stand
  • The parking and drop-off situation for a van or a small bus

The Questions You Have to Ask

We would rather answer these standing in the barn than over email. Come with the hard ones.

  • Supervision ratios and who is watching which group
  • Insurance, waivers, and the paperwork a parent has to sign
  • How our staff and volunteers are screened
  • What happens when a young person is frightened of a horse, and what happens when one is overconfident
  • Accessibility and what we can accommodate
  • Group size, and how we split a class across two dates

Who This Is For

  • School counselors and social workers
  • Teachers and school administrators
  • Case managers and probation or court services staff
  • After-school and youth program staff
  • Community and faith organization leaders
  • Parents and guardians who want a closer look first

Bring colleagues. If your whole counseling department wants to come, tell us on the form and we will plan for it.

You Leave With Dates in Hand

The point of the session is that you walk out able to act. You get the Barn Crew calendar, the signup link, the waiver, and a direct contact here.

Barn Crew is free. It costs a school, a family, or an agency nothing. There is no catch and there is nothing to sell you.

Children and adults gathered at the rail with their hands on a large pale horse

A Barn Crew afternoon

A volunteer mucking out a stall in the barn

Real work, supervised

The Ocean View Stables entrance sign reading Horse Ranch on the Coast, Daly City, California

Parking and drop off