Address:

Box 91282
Raleigh, NC 27675

Website:

www.helpingpawsintl.org

Subject Area:

Health and Human Services

Helping Paws Int'l Therapy, Reading, & Assistance Dogs/Pets

Helping Paws mission is 3-fold:

  1. to provide the highest quality Animal Therapy to the people in our community who are ill, lonely, injured, or have been stricken by misfortune.
  2. through our reading animal literacy program, B.A.R.K.S©® (Bonding Animals, Reading, Kids, & Safety) to help children with learning and speech disabilities overcome those problems, build self-confidence and self-esteem, improve their inter-personal communication skills, to teach them how to be safe around animals and the humane treatment of animals
  3. to support and promote the generous spirit of animals by supporting greyhound rescue and other dog/animal rescue & protection groups

Recent Opportunities

Become a Reading Assistance Dog (0 Comments)

September 22, 2011

Does your dog love children? Does you dog have its AKC-Canine good Citizen certificate --or can pass the CGC exam? Can you work at a school at least 1 hour each week? Helping Paws Book Buddies training classes will start... Read more >

Teach a Child to Read: Therapy Dogs and Volunteers Needed to Read with Children & Work in Healthcare Settings (0 Comments)

August 25, 2010

Would you love to work with your dog/pet and help give children a bright future? Helping Paws International, founded & headquartered in N.C., is looking for certified therapy dog/pet teams to join our read with a dog literacy program called... Read more >

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