Therapy Animal Preparation Course
Course instructors, Laurie Hardman, Amanda Gray and Judi Anderson-Wright 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.