Upcoming Events
December
12 - Gingerbread Dog House Making Party, Christiana, DE
7, 8, 10-12, 19, 23 - Barnes & Noble Gift Wrapping, Concord Mall, DE
11-24 - Barnes & Noble Gift Wrapping & Remembrance Tree, Christiana Mall, DE
Click here to see all upcoming events and to sign up!
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Courthouse Canines
Wednesday, 12/9
6:30 - 7:30
PAWS' Courthouse Canines teams may be called in to visit with children, offering comfort and diversion to the victims and their families, including during emotionally-charged testimony.
Come learn about
- the client population at both the Child Advocacy Center and the courthouse,
- types of abuse and the short and long-term effects on children and their families, and
- the expectations of the pet therapy team during courthouse/courtroom procedures.
Save the Date
January 6: PAWS for Reading
January 20: Nemours Prep
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Did you know that Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to PAWS for People whenever you shop on AmazonSmile?
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DOG TRAINING
WITH SEAN
Do you need to work on obedience or would you like to improve communication with your dog? Sean will tailor classes to meet your needs and interests and help you and your dog become a stronger team!
9 - Garland Farms
13 - PAWS office
16 - Garland Farms
20 - PAWS office
27 - Garland Farms
30 - PAWS office
January
Target Training
9 - PAWS office
SPECIAL HOLIDAY DEAL!
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Order Your 2016 PAWS Calendars
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Eduardo the Elephant
PAWS Therapy Team, Kathryn & Frangelica Meloni, are raising funds for PAWS again this holiday season by selling this adorable stuffed Elephant.
Purchase an Elephant for yourself for $21.20 ($19.99 plus tax) and 100% of the profits will go to PAWS for People. -
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onate the amount of $21.20 and 100% of the profit will go to PAWS and Eduardo will go to a child at one of the sites Kathryn and Frangelica visit.
Please contact Kathryn for more information:
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PAWS Annual Conference
Save the Date!
Saturday, February 20th
Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children
Keynote Speaker: James A. Serpell, PhD
* Marie A. Moore, Professor of Animal Ethics and Welfare
* Director, Center for the Interaction of Animals & Society, Department
of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Join us for
* Over 15 workshop options
* Exhibitors and vendors
* Morning snacks and lunch
For more information, please call (302) 351-5622
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PAWS needs some things!
out our Wish List.
Items for our Autism Packs
- Small tennis or dog friendly balls
- Child-sized dog brushes
- Mini bottles of hand sanitizer
Tablets of graph paper
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Office Hours
The PAWS office will be closed on the following days:
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
New Year's Eve
New Year's Day
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Feedback Welcome!
Please contact Wendy with questions, feedback, suggestions, stories, and pictures!
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Amazing Tails:
Making Connections with PAWS
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 Mike, Nina, and Lucy Flaherty became a PAWS Therapy Team this past June and have been visiting the Manor House in Seaford, DE ever since. They learned of our PAWS University program and have already completed quite a few courses which provide specialized training for different types of visiting. Not only have they been visiting and continuing their training, but they have been ambassadors for PAWS by attending community events and helping to recruit new therapy teams in southern Delaware. Nina recently shared, "Since moving to Delaware, PAWS is the most fun we have had! It is a great way to meet great people and their wonderful pets."
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Gingerbread Dog House Party
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Come and bring a friend or tell your friends to come!
Purchase your holiday desserts at our bake sale.
Try your luck at the raffle table and take home some doggie treats for your pups.
Create a special Holiday Gingerbread Dog House and
, while the candy cement sets, enjoy a light meal of homemade soups and bread.
Saturday, Dec. 12th, 11:00 - 1:30
Christiana United Methodist Church, Christiana, DE
There will be a bake sale, raffle, and prizes for houses.
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PAWS for People is once again partnering with Barnes & Noble for Holiday Gift Wrapping.
We need both nimble-fingered gift wrappers and loving pet therapy teams for this project. Bring your friends and enjoy some time together this holiday season. Click here to sign up on our special VolunteerSpot website.
Christiana Mall Location
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM every day
Friday, December 11th through Thursday, December 24th
Concord Mall Location
9:00 AM - 9:00 PM every day
Monday & Tuesday, December 7 & 8
Thursday - Saturday, December 10-12
Saturday, December 19th
Wednesday, December 23rd
Volunteers still needed - Please check out the schedule on
VolunteerSpot if you might be interested in helping out at this fun event!
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Jingle Bell Brunch Thank You!
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Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday for the Jingle Bell Brunch.
The day was a festive celebration of the magic and miracles of pet-assisted therapy.
What a perfect well to welcome December!
Special thanks to the event sponsors: Hillside Heating & Cooling, Arthur Hall Insurance, Ron & Jan Romich, Advanced Power Control, Concord Pet, and The Chahalis Ward Group at UBS.
Thank you to Lynne Robinson,
David Rose, and Nancy Shurkoff for our special presentation.
Thanks also to the small but mighty Jingle Bell Brunch Committee: Sam Dill (Chair), Elisabeth Simmons, Elissa Menashes & Erin Connelly.
Thanks to Jim Kerrigan & Stephanie Callaghan for serving as our event photographers.
Thanks to Mike Arenson & Pat Kerrigan for providing wonderful holiday music.
We also had a fabulous team of volunteers who made the day run so smoothly: Abby Rodgers, Jill Vernon, Nicola Hairgrove, Sarah Baker, Stephanie Cre
ech, Tanner Martin, Tawanda Harbison & Wendy Lewis.
Thanks to everyone for kicking off the season of giving with the gift of your time and talents!
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New PAWS Partner: HealthSouth
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Leia DiSabella, PAWS Therapy Companion, working hard in HealthSouth's therapy gym
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Amy DiSabella and her Golden Retriever, Leia, are one of our newest teams, joining PAWS in September of this year. They started visiting at HealthSouth, a new PAWS partnering site.
Way to go Amy and Leia!
HealthSouth is a 34 bed rehabilitation hospital, serving anyone over the age of 14. The average stay for patients is 7-10 days and there is a focus on PT, OT, and Speech therapy. Our therapy teams are used to help motivate, provide a positive distraction from the hard word the patients are really doing in therapy, and bring a bit of the comfort of home to the hospital.
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This year, PAWS' Remembrance Tree will be located at the Christiana Mall Barnes & Noble from December 11th through the 24th by our Gift Wrapping table. Stop by to add an ornament to the tree to remember or honor your pets or sign up to represent PAWS (
click here).
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| Keeley Potts, Mr. Foxx Connelly, and Loki Butler posing in front of the PAWS Rememberance Tree last year. |
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| Shining Stars: Mary Ellen & Silly Billy Dunn |
Thank you to PAWS Therapy Team, Mary Ellen Dunn and Silly Billy, for raising $300.00 for PAWS for People! Mary Ellen qualified for the Dollars for Doers Grant from her employer, CSAA Insurance Exchange, by submitting her PAWS volunteer hours. A group called Network for Good sent us a check in recognition of all of Mary and Billy's hard work!
Good luck to Silly Billy on his upcoming ACL surgery! He'll be missed by the children that read to him while he's recovering.
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Clarice, PAWS' Community Outreach Coordinator, recently received a call from a company who had been touched by the work of PAWS for People and wanted to find a way to give back.
First, they invited us to an even that they were sponsoring in Newark, DE to talk with attendees about the work of PAWS.
Now, they are taking their support a step farther. They have made PAWS for People the recipient of their Giving Tuesday efforts (which they have extended to the entire month of December)!
American Powerhouse is donating 10% of the of the proceeds of each Diablosport T1000 Trinity Tuner sold in the month of December to PAWS.
This is a popular Holiday gift for car and truck lovers.
Read more about this wonderful donation from American Powerhouse by
clicking here.
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| Diablosport T1000 Trinity Tuner |
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