Therapy Animal Preparation Course

Description

Course focus on teaching the many aspects of working in partnership with a therapy animal to promote health and effective bonding between humans and animals.

This course trains and screens volunteers and their pets for therapeutic programs and purposes in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, schools and other facilities. Focus is placed on learning how to handle the many aspects of the environments that you and your animal companion could visit. Utilizing role playing and effective dog handling skills participants gain a clear understanding of the teamwork needed for this kind of animal-human partnership.

It is essential that your dog be people and dog-friendly. We also expect that participant dogs can walk on a loose leash, sit, down, stay and recall.

Class activities will provide you with the opportunity to practice and prepare to take required evaluations to become registered with the organizations that support therapy animal volunteers. At Great Dog we provide evaluations for both our Connecting Canine's program and for Delta Pet Partners.

Course content is designed to meet the standards for registering with established organizations such as Therapy Dogs International, Therapy Dogs, Inc. and the Delta Society. It also serves as the building block foundation class for Connecting Canines, a puppy and dog therapy program.

Upon successful completion of this course, passing the Connecting Canine's behavioral and written tests, attending the Connecting Canine's shadowing requirement as well as successfully registering with our Connecting Canine's offices, you will be eligible to participate in the Great Dog Therapy Team which provides volunteer visit opportunities in a wide variety of settings in the Greater Seattle area.

Schedule

This class was last taught May 01, 2008 to June 05, 2008

• Thu 7:15p.m.-8:15p.m.

Pricing Details

$160

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