Birthdays and 18 Month Celebrations
PAALS Celebrates Our Latest Milestones:
 Duda and Tater turn 1 year old. Cora and Tyger are 18 months. Our assistance dogs in training grow closer everyday to their goal or serving others. 
Wing It at PAALS Spirit Night Lady Street, Cola, SC
Summer Will Be Here Before You Know It: 
Do you have your youth's summer planned?
Let PAALS Help!
This Year PAALS is Offering both Reading Camps and Traditional PAALS Summer Camps:
  The Reading Camp at Big Red Barn Retreat incorporates horses and dogs and focuses on decoding new words, reading quickly, accurately, and with expression, building vocabulary, and overcoming barriers that block comprehension.
Summer PAALS Junior Reading Camp incorporates dogs into activities that help campers with study skills, comprehension, decoding multi-syllable words, building vocabulary, higher order thinking, and critical thinking. Finally,
PAALS Summer Camps teach campers the basics of dog care, training, and community service all while pairing campers up to train a service dog candidate.
Register at the link below.
PAALS Wraps Up First of Three After School PAALS 
PAALS Isn't Keeping the Fun of Dog Training and Dog Care to the Summer.
We just wrapped up our first After School PAALS. The focus is in team work, leadership skills, and community service.  Participants learned the basics of dog care and dog handling, practiced the CGC test with dogs in training, and......
There are more sessions in March and April. Register at link below.
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PAALS Depends on Summer Interns
Summer time at PAALS is always exciting. Not only do we have Summer PAALS Camps, but we have college students home for the summer who are ready and willing to roll up their sleeves and go to work. Some of these interns have been fostering and volunteering with PAALS for years, just like our own Andrea (pictured with Sully). June, July, and August may be slow seasons for some but not PAALS and we are grateful to have our summer assistants. 

Share Your Time and Talents With PAALS
PAALS will hold its next volunteer orientation March 22 followed by the next weekend foster training Friday March 23 through Sunday March 25th. Volunteers help with PAALS in all sorts of ways from being weekend fosters, to weekday outings, even helping to maintain the facility classrooms and dog play areas. Many even offer services free of charge to PAALS. If you think you have some special gifts and talents to offer PAALS, Registration is required to attend volunteer orientation or weekend foster so sign up now. 

Help Send a Service Dog in Training to College
PAALS Celebrates Heroes and Dedicated Donors with and Evening of Jurassic Flare

(Columbia, SC) (March 11, 2018) - A Dino-mite time was had by all at PAALS annual fundraising UnGala. Saturday, March 13, 2018, over 400 PAALS supporters gathered at the SC State Museum in Columbia, SC, for a festive evening of entertainment and both live and silent auctions so that Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services can continue its 11 years of training and matching service dogs to assist people with physical disabilities, Autism, and PTSD.
 
The 10th annual UnGala did not disappoint. Attendees looked amazing in their tourist, caveperson, and dinosaur themed outfits. The honor of the evening went to nine military veterans who all served at least 20 years in one of the military branches of service, and the fund-a-need event focused on raising funds for Rob's Best Friend Fund, which supports PAALS efforts to place service dogs with veterans at no cost to the veterans.
 
Tokyo Joe was a definite crowd pleaser enticing several of their regular followers and fans to the PAALS event for the first time. Live auction items included several pieces of one-of-a kind pendants from Moseley's Jewelers and memorable Florida vacation getaways.
 
Not only was the evening successful at helping PAALS achieve its financial goals, but one of the best parts of the evening is that supporters got to meet and mingle with PAALS service dog candidates in training. One such group is PAALS corporate sponsor Coldwell Banker Realty The Hood Team, who got to visit with Flossy and Skipper. Pulling off such a huge event as UnGala would be impossible without the support of PAALS corporate and event sponsors including KO Automotive, The Hood Team- Coldwell Banker Realty, Novesis, Tito's Vodka, Gamez Foundation, Moseley's, SC Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Care, EF Martin, Pops Convenience Stores, Gregory Electric, and AllSouth Federal Credit Union.

"PAALS relies on the success of our UN-Gala to meet the need for assistance dogs and animal assisted intervention in our community. The amount of money raised can truly equal the number of people we are able serve in the next year," said Jen Rogers, PAALS Executive Director. Just one PAALS dog impacts thousands of lives through the animal assisted intervention programs prior to its forever placement.
 
Photos by Rob Wilson Photography.
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About PAALS
PAALS is South Carolina 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to enriching and empowering children and adults with physical disabilities and social needs by training service dogs and providing animal assisted educational and recreational activities. PAALS relies on a network of volunteers and private donations to perform this mission. PAALS does not receive any government funding. PAALS is the only Assistance Dog International (ADI) accredited program based in South Carolina.