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Animal Assisted Crisis Response Association
c/o Lois C. Hardy, 5314 Sunrise Shore, Chincoteague, VA 23336
www.aacra.org/index.html
AACRA is a non-profit organization maintaining a registry of therapy dog/handler
teams available for crisis response. AACRA maintains contact with primary responders to a crisis offering dog/handler
volunteers to assist counselors and clergy with support for those affected by a disaster, natural or manmade. The
AACRA registry includes dogs that have been screened and evaluated by a recognized agency for their suitability
for therapy work, together with their handlers.
The purpose of the Association is to provide qualified therapy dogs to work with counselors assisting victims,
friends, families, rescue workers and any one else affected by disasters, natural and manmade, and criminal acts.
To this end, the Association maintains a registry of such therapy dogs grouped by state and indexed by the name
of each dog's handler. Only dogs which have an Identification or other evidence of certification by a recognized
evaluation organization may be placed in the registry. |
A Leg Up Therapeutic Riding Center for the Handicapped
P. O. Box 1257, Abingdon, VA 24212-1257
www.naxs.com/charity/unitedway/legup/legup.htm
We at A Leg Up Therapeutic Riding Center for the Handicapped believe that
there is a special bond between animals and people. Over the last 10 years we have grown from a small outdoor riding
program to a year round full service facility now serving over two hundred children. We offer "hippotherapy"
for physically and mentally challenged children and adults. Our goal is to reach out to more of the 4,000 special
education children in our area and to expand our adult program. We would also like to provide respite care for
parents with challenged children. Our big dream is to train others to open centers like A Leg Up all over the USA
and help many more people than we could reach personally from Abingdon, Virginia. |
Paws for Health
Richmond, Virginia
http://views.vcu.edu/paws/
Paws for Health is the non-profit pet visitation program of the Children's
Medical Center of the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals at Virginia Commonwealth University. Community volunteers
and their adult dogs visit hospitalized pediatric patients. The pets can entertain by doing tricks or simply provide
the child with an opportunity to pet and interact with the animal. Visits occur in the general pediatric units,
intensive care units, the cancer outpatient clinics, infectious disease clinic and sickle cell clinic. Many sizes
and breeds of dogs are used. Research continues to show how pets can influence and improve our health. |
The Shiloh Project
12210 Fairfax Town Center, PMB #902, Fairfax, VA 22033
www.shilohproject.org/
The Shiloh Project, a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, is a
Fairfax County, Virginia based non-profit organization teaching juvenile offenders and youth at-risk compassion,
respect and responsibility toward animals and others through the experience of socializing and interacting with
rescued homeless dogs. The Shiloh Project offers a rare and unique opportunity for juvenile offenders and youth
at-risk in the Fairfax County community to participate in the experience of socializing and interacting with rescued
homeless dogs. |
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