Animal Assisted Crisis Response Team Training
Hope Crisis Response has three and four day programs to prepare volunteers and their dogs. Teams provide emotional support in difficult situations.
Applejack is Crisis Certified
"Applejack" served as a loving distraction for emotionally traumatized people after shooting disasters at Santana and Granite Hills high schools. A.J. and handler are certified for Animal Assisted Emotional Support (AAES).
California Fires -- Seeing Heart Dogs Offer Cheer
Emotional support dogs and their owners are helping in an evacuation center during the forest fires in southern California. Describes the Hope Crisis Response team training program. [Disaster News Network] (October 26, 2003)
Crisis Response Program
When tragedy and people are gathered together in their grief, the simple act of petting a dog can give comfort that no words can offer. By Caring Canines, Boston.
Disaster Relief Dogs
Therapy Dogs assisted families and relief workers following 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Other examples from September 11. Includes a poem. Therapy Dogs International (TDI) is preparing training and testing standards.
Four-Footed Therapy
Pier 94 became the Family Center following the World Trade Center attacks. The task of orienting, scheduling, and monitoring the 100 four-footed therapists from several pet therapy groups fell to the ASPCA counselors.
Good Dog Foundation
This local pet therapy group worked disaster relief following September 11 and is preparing for future needs.
Healing Ways of Doctor Dog
Some 100 therapy dogs - Labs, mutts, a borzoi, a basset hound - and three cats worked the family center at Pier 94 following the Twin Towers attack. Other dogs helped the Red Cross to comfort firefighters, police officers, and rescue workers at ground zero. [May not work for all browsers.] [New York Times] (November 28, 2001)
K-9 Disaster Relief
This non-profit organization works with national, state, and local crisis and disaster relief agencies as well as the academic community. It sponsors and hosts conferences, seminars and presentations on Canine Crisis Intervention. Articles on several aspects of this work.
Man's Best Friend Helps WTC Workers
Workers at Ground Zero receive therapy and a grief outlet in the shape of a golden retriever called Nikie - the site's only certified therapy dog. Other dogs helped at the city's family assistance centres. [BBC News] (February 6, 2002)
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