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LEGACY THERAPY DOGS
Our Programs
Mental Health Awareness
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 billion people worldwide are living with mental health disorders. The Legacy Therapy Dogs are committed to helping with this crisis. The Legacy Therapy Dogs visit with many mental health chapters throughout the quad cities. This form of animal assisted therapy uses trained animals for a wide range of people to help achieve therapeutic outcomes. Interacting with therapy dogs has been shown to produce significant decreases in depression and anxiety and can also help improve communication and social behaviors. The Legacy therapy dogs are available to visit your facility, mental health chapter, and your staff and students to offer some much needed therapy dog love.
Galesburg Jr. High Fosters Voice
***Legacy Therapy Dogs mental health awareness program does not take the place of professional interventions***
Reading Dogs
The Legacy Therapy Dogs can help students improve literacy skills and provide a non-stressful, non-judgmental environment. Afterall; Dogs Don’t judge, they just listen. Reading with a dog increases self-confidence and encourages a love of reading in specific and learning in general. The Legacy Therapy dogs are great in all learning environments! They help ease stress right before a big exam which can improve tests scores, they help give support to struggling readers and they also help children focus better. The Legacy Therapy Dogs provide a focus for conversation and encourage communication. They can help fearful children become more self assured, help children overcome speech and emotional disorders and they can help relieve stress and anxiety ~ especially with autistic children.We also work with teachers, social workers and counselors to help students deal with anger, pain and sadness
Washington Elementary (Moline) Summer School Program
Crisis Response
The Legacy Therapy Dogs can help in times of crisis by providing comfort, stress relief and emotional support. The safety and familiarity of therapy dogs has been found to help build rapport with and provide comfort to a person affected by a crisis. Therapy dogs are often seen as emotional First Aid. The Legacy Therapy dogs can help people affected by the loss of a friend, colleague or loved one. They can offer assistance after mass casualty events, as well as provide comfort after natural or manmade disasters.The Legacy Therapy dogs can also offer support for first responders as well.
The Legacy Therapy Dogs crisis response teams are on call, and need no prior notice to help assist in times of crisis.
Moline High School, responding in crisis
***Legacy Therapy Dogs crisis response program does not take the place of professional interventions***