Consultation and Evaluation Services
Do you want to become a therapy dog-handler team at your workplace or volunteer setting?
Do you want to start an animal-assisted therapy or education program at your workplace?
We can guide you through the process…
Tilly’s Place can support you at all stages of becoming a therapy dog/handler team with your current or future dog and/or in starting a therapy animal program at your school, facility, or private practice. Scheduling is flexible to meet your needs.
Our staff has worked extensively with professionals/students in OT, PT, SLP, social work, and literacy, as well as administrators, to incorporate therapy dogs into the university, therapeutic, and educational settings.
We can perform the Association of Animal-Assisted Intervention Professionals (AAAIP) therapy animal-handler team evaluation for professionals, which will ensure you and your dog are ready to engage in animal-assisted interventions using best practices, and will qualify you for liability insurance when incorporating your therapy dog into professional practice.
Consultation and evaluation services may include:
Providing evidence from the literature supporting the incorporation of animals into your setting/with your population
Speaking with your supervisors/administration about professionalization of the field of animal-assisted interventions
Guidance with
How to select a potential therapy dog
Therapy animal training, including exposure to multiple environments and people
The process to become certified as an Animal-Assisted Intervention Specialist
The process to become a volunteer with your dog
Therapy dog/handler team evaluations
Safety and liability insurance
Setting up the environment for success
Animal welfare practices
Ideas for animal-assisted therapy and/or animal-assisted education programming within your field of practice/population served
Therapy dog training for the professional therapeutic, educational, or volunteer setting
Professional therapy dog/handler team assessments
