About Our Volunteers

Canine
Human

Pets and People's Dog Volunteers
can be trained to:

• Assist persons confined to wheelchairs
• Alert to sounds & warn of dangers
• Alert to medical conditions & seizures
• Carry belongings in backpacks
• Open doors at home & in public
• Hold, carry, find & retrieve items
• Facilitate ambulation
• Help overcome panic attacks
• Turn ON and OFF switches (lights, radio, fans, speakerphone, etc.)
• Act as a "moveable handrail" up/down stairs, in restrooms, etc.
• Augment physical & occupational therapy
• Enhance social relations
• Assist clients who suffer from ADD (attention-deficit disorder) and Autism
• Carry messages from person to person
• Decrease vulnerability to crime

Pets and People's Human Volunteers
are educated to:

• Approach Health and Human Services Institutions with a plan for Animal-Assisted Interaction (AAI)
• Provide safe, healthy, certified animals to agencies for therapeutic interaction
• Collaborate with various members of the healthcare team to provide AAI
• Develop a therapeutic working relationship with their animal partner
• Provide services in a therapeutic manner
• Maintain the health of their animal partner for optimum AAI
• Identify and alleviate stress in their animal partners
• Develop multidisciplinary treatment plans
• Participate in AAI research
• Document AAI in the client record
• Maintain Pets and People program reports

Meet some volunteers

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