What We Do

Paws 4 Healing volunteer members and their registered pets provide Animal-Assisted Activities/Therapy services at facilities in our local communities.  Most of our members volunteer with dogs, but some visit with other kinds of domestic animals, such as rabbits. (Wild or exotic animals such as snakes, ferrets, or lizards can not be registered. Consult the Delta Society^® web site to find out more.)

Our volunteers visit facilities such as, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, schools, children’s centers, and battered women’s homes to name a few.  Most facilities we visit are setup on scheduled visits, while some can be visited on a flexible schedule.

Some of our teams participate in the R.E.A.D.^® program for children.  R.E.A.D.^®, which stands for Reading Education Assistance Dogs, is a program developed by Intermountain Therapy Animals of Utah.  Paws 4 Healing teams participating in R.E.A.D.^® are registered with I.T.A.  For more information about the benefits of R.E.A.D.^® programs, please go to the I.T.A. website at www.therapyanimals.org.  You can email us to find out if we have a R.E.A.D.^® program in your area.

In addition to making pet therapy visits our teams participate in a variety of events, conferences, fairs, parades, and expos for the purpose of spreading the word about Animal-Assisted Activities and Animal-Assisted Therapy.  These events give us an opportunity to meet people, share our working pets, and talk about the benefits of pet therapy.  If you are interested in learning more about how to join Paws 4 Healing, click the How to Get Involved button on the navigation bar.