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The Paws For Healing Mission... Our mission is to train and provide canine-assisted therapy (C.A.T.) teams to enhance the quality of life for people who have special needs in health care  and educational facilities. Our teams visit sites throughout Napa, Solano, Sonoma and Marin counties and our motto is mending hearts with loving paws and guiding hands.What is Paws for Healing? PFH is a community-based, non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation. Paws for Healing was founded in 1998 and has over 200 active teams visiting hospitals, mental health facilities, special education classes and adult day care centers, cancer units, Hospice and cancer support groups, rehabilitation units, and assisted living and public libraries and school settings. |
| Paws For Healing does not train individual dogs to assist people with disabilities. If you are interested in the requirements for a service therapy dog, please refer to our article, "Are You Looking For a Service Therapy Dog?". For access to additional reference material on animal-assisted therapy as well as assistance dogs you can visit your local library, book store or click here to visit Doggy DMV for a list of available books. |
