Crisis Support

1. Animal Assisted Crisis Response Team Training  (site info) Hope Crisis Response has three and four day programs to prepare volunteers and their dogs. Teams provide emotional support in difficult situations. http://www.animalassistedcrisisresponse.org/ 2. Healing Ways of Doctor Dog  (site info) 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] http://www.cannondaleanimalclinic.com/nytimes2.htm... 3. Crisis Response Program  (site info) 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. http://www.caringcanines.org/crisisresponse.html 4. Therapy Dogs Help Relieve Stress for Families, Staff, Volunteers  (site info) Animals provided comfort at a crisis center near the Pentagon following September 11. All were family pets of the volunteers on the other end of the leash. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/n10112001_... 5. California Fires -- Seeing Heart Dogs Offer Cheer  (site info) 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] http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articlei... 1-5 of 17. Next »