Paws & Pals Heal Mental Illness: Youth
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Paws & Pals is requesting donations for our one of a kind healing program. Your donation will enable us to offer healing, mentoring & happiness to the 62,000 children & teens attending school in our service areas. Paws and Pals is an animal-assisted therapy center dedicated to helping youth ages 5-... Read More
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Paws & Pals is requesting donations for our one of a kind healing program. Your donation will enable us to offer healing, mentoring & happiness to the 62,000 children & teens attending school in our service areas. Paws and Pals is an animal-assisted therapy center dedicated to helping youth ages 5-20 identify and address mental and behavioral health concerns using trained and certified dogs to create an animal-human bond experience to facilitate therapy sessions and mentorships. Our team program, K.I.N.D. (Kids In Need of Dogs) Therapy is designed to help children learn to identify and express their emotions through planned activities with their assigned dog and mentor. The intent is to reduce the stigma around mental health and illness to eliminate a child’s thought that “something is wrong with me”. This healing process is offered in our 9000 square foot community building named the Dawg Pound. The Dawg Pound is an all-inclusive, safe place with over a dozen healing stations, plenty of room to play with your Paw & mentor and always know you are part of our "village".
Our goal is to serve 75 kids each week
based on daily/weekly activities, monthly themes, and community needs. Parents
will have the opportunity to participate in educational training classes,
support groups, and group activities while their child is in session.
The outcomes Paw & Pals is working
to achieve:
- Enhance cognitive skills, verbalize
their emotions, and learn coping
skills.
- Train and certify 75 therapy dogs
- Collaborate with area school
districts, hospitals, nonprofits, and
businesses
- Create a sense of community for youth
and parents to build a
village of support
- Create volunteer opportunities for
youth and provide job skills
training
Ongoing Long-Term Project Benefit for
Participants
The ongoing and long-term benefits of
the K.I.N.D. Therapy Program is to provide:
To mitigate the long-term effects of
untreated mental anguish in children that can carry on and worsen in their
adulthood.
Reduce problems at home and school
that will help youth to develop healthy relationships.
A safe and judgment-free zone for
youth (and parents) to feel comfortable expressing and being themselves.
Improve social & communicative
skills, cognitive self-care, and learn new coping and behavioral habits.
Equip parents with tools and resources
to support their child’s needs.
No update found.
Find this nonprofit on: https://pawsandpals.org
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Paws & Pals Heal Mental Illness: Youth
Tonia Haakonstad, on behalf of
Paws & Pals
Tonia Haakonstad
After 20 successful years in the finance industry, Tonia decide that her drive to succeed would be better served in the Nonprofit sector. In 2014 she created and started the 501C3 Nonprofit Wishes with Wings. Wishes with Wings has granted over 1000 birthday and quality of life wishes to children and teens living in homeless, residential, addiction recovery and domestic violence shelters. My passion for helping children and teens coupled with my own experience of how dogs can heal brought me to my new creation Paws & Pals.
Paws & Pals Heal Mental Illness: Youth
$0 of $50,000
Paws & Pals Heal Mental Illness: Youth
Tonia Haakonstad, on behalf of
Paws & Pals
Tonia Haakonstad
After 20 successful years in the finance industry, Tonia decide that her drive to succeed would be better served in the Nonprofit sector. In 2014 she created and started the 501C3 Nonprofit Wishes with Wings. Wishes with Wings has granted over 1000 birthday and quality of life wishes to children and teens living in homeless, residential, addiction recovery and domestic violence shelters. My passion for helping children and teens coupled with my own experience of how dogs can heal brought me to my new creation Paws & Pals.
Paws & Pals is requesting donations for our one of a kind healing program. Your donation will enable us to offer healing, mentoring & happiness to the 62,000 children & teens attending school in our service areas. Paws and Pals is an animal-assisted therapy center dedicated to helping youth ages 5-... Read More
Campaign URL:
Paws & Pals is requesting donations for our one of a kind healing program. Your donation will enable us to offer healing, mentoring & happiness to the 62,000 children & teens attending school in our service areas. Paws and Pals is an animal-assisted therapy center dedicated to helping youth ages 5-20 identify and address mental and behavioral health concerns using trained and certified dogs to create an animal-human bond experience to facilitate therapy sessions and mentorships. Our team program, K.I.N.D. (Kids In Need of Dogs) Therapy is designed to help children learn to identify and express their emotions through planned activities with their assigned dog and mentor. The intent is to reduce the stigma around mental health and illness to eliminate a child’s thought that “something is wrong with me”. This healing process is offered in our 9000 square foot community building named the Dawg Pound. The Dawg Pound is an all-inclusive, safe place with over a dozen healing stations, plenty of room to play with your Paw & mentor and always know you are part of our "village".
Our goal is to serve 75 kids each week
based on daily/weekly activities, monthly themes, and community needs. Parents
will have the opportunity to participate in educational training classes,
support groups, and group activities while their child is in session.
The outcomes Paw & Pals is working
to achieve:
- Enhance cognitive skills, verbalize
their emotions, and learn coping
skills.
- Train and certify 75 therapy dogs
- Collaborate with area school
districts, hospitals, nonprofits, and
businesses
- Create a sense of community for youth
and parents to build a
village of support
- Create volunteer opportunities for
youth and provide job skills
training
Ongoing Long-Term Project Benefit for
Participants
The ongoing and long-term benefits of
the K.I.N.D. Therapy Program is to provide:
To mitigate the long-term effects of
untreated mental anguish in children that can carry on and worsen in their
adulthood.
Reduce problems at home and school
that will help youth to develop healthy relationships.
A safe and judgment-free zone for
youth (and parents) to feel comfortable expressing and being themselves.
Improve social & communicative
skills, cognitive self-care, and learn new coping and behavioral habits.
Equip parents with tools and resources
to support their child’s needs.
No update found.
