How do I look into becoming a therapy animal team?

A great place to start is the national website, www.petpartners.org, and the suggestions for what makes a good therapy animal, what is covered in a team evaluation, and more. Here is a great link to check: https://petpartners.org/preparing-your-pet-for-therapy-animal-work/  

UPCOMING TRAINING:  

PET PARTNERS THERAPY ANIMAL HANDLER COURSE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

This is an excellent opportunity for new handlers to obtain training, ask questions, experience visiting scenarios, observe a team evaluation, and learn expectations, policies and protocols for registered Pet Partners therapy animal teams.  For questions or more information, please contact Instructor Donna Ford.  Click here for information flyer and steps to start registration for course.    

 

In what ways can your organization help me?

NCPP can help you through networking, service, mentoring, building community, and connecting you to service opportunities.  We can also help if you are interested in having some of our teams visit your place of work or know of other places that would benefit from animal therapy

 

I don't have a pet right now but I'd like to be involved. How can I do this?

We have memberships for currently "unleashed" people.  We would love to have you in our group to help support activities like team evaluations and other opportunities. We welcome you to attend our meetings and learn more about our group. The meeting schedule is on our home page.  You can also donate to support NCPP's mission of promoting the human-animal bond in our community.

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