To provide a therapeutic intervention for at-risk adolescents through dog obedience training.
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To provide growth and learning opportunities for people and animals to enhance the lives of people and animals from all types of backgrounds.
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To partner humans and dogs for positive transformation.
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Our accredited, structured, and research-based programs change lives:
Disadvantaged youths and youths with behavioral challenges are better prepared to manage their own lives and help others.
Children and adults with physical, emotional and behavioral challenges are better equipped to carry out activities of daily living and become more confident in interacting with others.
Dogs at risk of euthanasia are given a second chance, since they are more adoptable following their training and socialization.
Communities serving these at-risk youth and dogs are stronger, since they have happier and more productive residents.
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"My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am." ~Anonymous~
Thank you God for creatures who remind me of who you created me to be.
To offer adolescents an opportunity to develop a positive sense of accomplishment, self worth and pride.
To offer adolescents an opportunity to improve specific living skills such as assertiveness, patience, staying on task, communication and commitment.
To introduce adolescents to career opportunities in animal related fields.
To provide a successful experience for the adolescents and dogs.
To increase the adoptability of selected adult dogs through basic obedience training.
Through a series of classes, a canine obedience instructor helps student trainers teach basic obedience commands to dogs from an animal shelter.
Suitable dogs are selected from a local animal shelter and medically and behaviorally screened. They are given a standard series of inoculations, neutered or spayed, and boarded at the class site.
Student trainers are adolescents from residential centers for treatment of substance abuse, behavioral or alienation problems. They are selected by the staff of their agency and are transported to the class site for the classes.
The student trainer commits to one four-week course, meeting two times per week. Up to three agencies may furnish student trainers to work with one group of dogs. They train on different days. The dogs get up to 6 hours of quality attention each week.
Each dog is placed in a suitable home after graduation.
Through a series of classes, a canine obedience instructor helps student trainers teach basic obedience commands to dogs from an animal shelter.
Suitable dogs are selected from a local animal shelter and medically and behaviorally screened. They are given a standard series of inoculations, neutered or spayed, and boarded at the class site.
Student trainers are adolescents from residential centers for treatment of substance abuse, behavioral or alienation problems. They are selected by the staff of their agency and are transported to the class site for the classes.
The student trainer commits to one four-week course, meeting two times per week. Up to three agencies may furnish student trainers to work with one group of dogs. They train on different days. The dogs get up to 6 hours of quality attention each week.
Each dog is placed in a suitable home after graduation.