| Welcome to a special place of rescue, hope, restoration and everyday miracles nestled in the coastal hills of central California! |
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Morning Star Youth Ranch is selling a lovely double wide mobile home that has been donated to us. It must be sold or we will lose it. Funds from the sale are urgently needed to fund our program. Please click here for a detailed flier with photos and asking price. |
 Who we are:
Morning Star Youth Ranch is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization created to benefit our youth, support families and rehabilitate horses. It is our desire to provide a safe environment for today's youth to find acceptance, to build trust, and to learn life skills through relationships. |
What we do:
With Youth: We invite youth accompanied by their parents or guardians to travel the dusty road to our ranch, meet the horses and staff and learn what our angels in horsehair have to share. The only requirement is that each child has a desire to come and a willingness to try.
With horses: Morning Star Ranch rescues horses in need of nutritional, medical, or emotional care with the goal of restoring them to health and usefulness. We then seek to place them in a positive environment either here on the ranch with visiting youth or in a place consistent with their needs. |
Images of activites at Morning Star |
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Our program:
Our program pairs one child, one horse, and one leader to meet the individual needs of each one that comes to the ranch. Through observation, the staff will tailor a program that is created to restore the heart and soul, and develop the strengths of each child. Children come by appointment with our program offered at no cost. Please *click here for our brochure. |
Horses express their joy in the newly fenced pasture. Photos by Kathy Whitacre. |
What is in process now:
We are building arena areas and a horse hospital, training mentors and volunteers. We are also receiving donations of horse supplies, saddles and safety helmets, etc.
Children come by appointment on a limited basis. Our hope is to serve more children as we grow through the process of mentor training and continue to find funding for the building of our facilities.
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How you can help:
Right now you can help with building projects, repairs, photography, landscaping and more on our scheduled work days. Please fill out and mail or e-mail our *volunteer application so we can contact you. We need donations of fencing materials, sand, horse stalls, arena covers, a wash rack, and veterinary hospital equipment. If you are interested please call or send us an e-mail! |
How you can donate:
Morning Star Youth Ranch is in need of donations to build the necessary facilities to house rescued horses and areas for youth to ride and interact with our recovering horses.
- We can earn a percentage of your online shopping if you use our links on our Shop page.
- Read our Wish List for specific needs on our FAQ page.
- Please read our Sponsor letter which includes a donation form for mailing. Please make your tax deductible check out to Morning Star Youth Ranch and mail to our address at the bottom of this page.
- Shop at our Used Tack Stores at three locations.
- Or, donate online by clicking on the GuideStar icon below:
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The historic barn built in 1915 is in need of restoration work |
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