With only a few tickets left and 24 hours to go, we have one more surprise for Saturday’s safeTALK in Elora. As you likely already know this special safeTALK is being hosted by the Centre Wellington Community Foundation, and supported with funding from BDO Guelph, and the Kate and Margot Fund. These partnerships have made this safeTALK available at a reduced rate of $10 per participant (regular $50.)
But it gets even better than that!
INTRODUCING FRANKIE!
Meet Frankie. Frankie is a Barbet (French water dog,) a mother of 28, and has had three husbands! She’s also a pet therapy dog from The Lifeline Canada Foundation (TLC for short 🙂 )
And Frankie will be joining our safeTALK workshop this coming Saturday. If you didn’t have enough reasons already to sign up for this safeTALK workshop, here’s one more pretty irresistible nudge from us to you.
ABOUT THERAPY DOGS
Did you know TLC has 3 types of Therapy Dogs?
“Personal Therapy Dog: (first program of its kind in Canada): A personal therapy dog is a trained, evaluated and certified dog that brings benefits to their owners/handlers that struggle with mental health conditions.
“Assisted Therapy Dog: Assisted Therapy Dogs join their handler/owner (typically educators, teachers, psychologists, counsellors and doctors) at their workplace to help their students, clients, customers and/or patients.
“Visiting Therapy Dog: Typically, Visiting Therapy Dogs visit hospitals, schools, hospices, nursing homes and more. Unlike service dogs, therapy dogs are encouraged to interact with a variety of people while they are on-duty including petting the therapy dog.”
What a service to the mental health of humanity! And we hope it feels reciprocated to Frankie.
To learn more about therapy dogs, The Lifeline Canada Foundation and their Companion Paws program, click here. This link will also give you some insight into the difference between service dogs and therapy dogs.
IT’S A FIRST, AND WE’RE THRILLED!
It’s a first for us to have a therapy dog in one of our workshops, and we’re thrilled about it. As we emBARK on this new adventure, who knows…perhaps this will be the start of things to come. Would you like to see a therapy dog in our future workshops?
The only question we have left is, if Frankie completes the safeTALK workshop along with the rest of our participants, should she be given a certificate too?