MSN 222 5315 the beaches between produce their families damaed to individuals and their animals animal assisted therapy and activities. We are a Licensed Society Affiliate and offer Pet Partner coursework, evaluation and assistance with placement to passing students at local facilities. Children read to dogs to improve reading skills. Dogs must be registered with a national registry. Must be willing to also train and register with Reading Education Assistance Dogs TN Safety Spotters is a registered therapy dog group for deaf dogs that travel the entire Mid South area doing Animal-Assisted interactions hospitals, abuse centers, correctional facilities along with Canine Public Education, teaching Fire Safety and Dog Bite Prevention. We provide a R.E.A.D. program and are available the West TN area. CGC instruction and testing available. This is a nonprofit charitable organization. Members and Volunteers welcome! TEXAS. Therapy Pet Pals of Texas is a private non-profit, charitable volunteer organization that shares the of pets with individuals health care facilities institutions who are deprived of the very special that animals can give. Paws for Caring visits about 30 facilities and has around 200 members. We are involved with animal-assisted therapy and animal-assisted activities. We visit a variety of places from nursing homes, adult day care centers, schools with disabled children, rehabs., Shriners' Hospital for Children, other hospitals downtown just to name a few. We have facilities on our waiting list and not enough volunteers. A team of organized volunteers involving the incorporation of trained animals specifically certified to administer therapy to adults children nursing homes or hospitals we visit. Animal assisted therapy is a scientifically proven form of therapy that is recognized as therapeutic and recreational. Therapet Animal Assisted Therapy Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of AAT Through publications, seminars, and professionally developed videos, we assist volunteers and health care professionals developing and managing programs. OTR is a leader the field, and the executive director of Therapet. She uses specially trained and certified animals as tools the treatment of patients. Her program provides animals that are used daily a rehabilitation hospital. addition, she has developed a program that provides animals acute care hospital for use the pediatric, geriatric, oncology unit, and the open heart recovery unit, and both ICU and CCU. Lastly, she developed and currently runs a program for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice where her volunteers and animals work with psychiatric inmates as part of Occupational Therapy. has authored Animal Assisted Therapy: A Guide for Care Professionals and Volunteers. She has also provided 17 national two-day seminars on this topic with 4 more planned this year. Therapet is dedicate to the advancement of this growing field. A variety of medical professionals are available to answer questions including physicians, therapists, and critical care nurses. We look forward to hearing from you. Texas Therapy Companion Pets, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides training and certification for people and their pets for visitations a variety of area facilities the East Texas area. We visit nursing homes, Alzheimer's groups, rehabilitation facilities and day care We are looking for individuals who have interest joining us for a great year of fun and service. We provide trained, Certified dogs for those who would like to join us but do not have animal or do not have one suitable or ready for visits. We work with students from SFA and area schools, who pair up with a dog from TTCP that is ready to go to work. Our goal for 2002 is to expand the area we serve to include surrounding counties we need lots of new people. Our Organization be having a Certification on .26 Nacogdoches, Texas. If you need more information or have interest joining us, please write me, jeanthdoglady or call Aggieland Pets With A Purpose is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Brazos Valley area residents by enhancing their physical, social and emotional well-being with the unconditional of our pets. APWAP provides volunteers and evaluated and trained animals for educational, rehabilitative, and emotional assistance purposes. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to providing therapy dogs to those who wish to discover the enrichment that dogs can bring. We provide certification testing to all prospective members and insurance to those certified and active members of