·    EARLY CHILDHOOD VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Among the painful memories that live in the pasts of many of the Ulpana girls are those of a deprived or abused childhood.  It is therefore no surprise that they take so eagerly to the vocation for which the school prepares them – as assistants to pre-school teachers.  They volunteer as teachers' helpers in the Dolev nursery and kindergarten classes.  They learn to work with others as the staff in Dolev works with them – with one on one very personal attention.

What they have missed in their own families, they now learn in a nurturing educational environment.

”RIDE ‘EM, COWGIRL!” - Empowerment through Equestrian Therapy

A favorite creative therapy employed at the Ulpana is that of therapeutic horseback riding. Through the process of caring for the horses and feeding them, the students at the Ulpana
 learn to use nurturing skills that will serve them in other areas of life – skills that in many cases were not cultivated in the girls’ original homes.

Equestrian therapy enables students to experience both the pleasure and freedom of riding, together with the power of restraint, through an acquired learning of the use of the reigns. It is this combination – freedom and restraint – that enables the character of the Ulpana students to bloom.