Tilly’s Place can support you in starting a therapy animal program at your school, facility, or private practice using evidence-based best practices to ensure the safety and welfare of, and benefit to, the people and animals involved.

Our staff has worked extensively with institutional administration and professionals/students in OT, PT, SLP,
social work, and literacy to incorporate therapy dogs into the university, therapeutic, and educational settings.

Consultation 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

• Site-specific guidance with

  • Therapy animal selection

  • Therapy animal training

  • Therapy animal evaluation

  • Safety and liability insurance in the professional setting

  • 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

Please reach out to Laura <laura@tillysplace.org> for more information