Where We Volunteer

Teams consisting of a volunteer handler and his/her registered therapy dog participate in visitation and therapy sessions at a variety of different locations in the Chicago metropolitan area:

Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois

• 5th floor Rehabilitation unit
• 4th floor Pediatrics
• Burn Unit

Hines Veterans Administration Hospital
Hines Illinois

• Physical / Occupational Therapy
• Blind Rehabilitation
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Psychiatric Day Treatment
• Inpatient Psychiatry
• Extended Care / Geriatrics / Hospice units
• Medical / Rehabilitation unit

Fairview Baptist Home
Downers Grove, Illinois

• Assisted Living
• Medicare units
• Dementia units

Our Lady of Victory Convent and Infirmary
Lemont, Illinois

• Infirmary unit

Children’s Advocacy Rooms—Cook County Circuit Court System

• Fourth Municipal District
  Loyola Children’s Center at Maybrook
  Maywood, Illinois
• Domestic Violence Court Building
  Loyola Children’s Center
  Chicago, Illinois

Reading Education Assistance Dog (R.E.A.D.) programs:

• Tate Woods Elementary School
  Lisle, Illinois
• Scheiser Elementary School
  Lisle, Illinois
• Meadowview Elementary School
  Woodridge, Illinois
• Hodgkins Elementary School
  Hodgkins, Illinois
• Conrady Junior High School
  Hickory Hills, Illinois