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

• 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

Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove, Illinois

• Geriatric Psychiatry unit
• Adult Psychiatry unit

McNeal Hospital
Berwyn, Illinois

• Orthopedic Unit

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

• Tate Woods Elementary School
  Lisle, Illinois
• Scheiser Elementary School
  Lisle, Illinois
• Hodgkins Elementary School
  Hodgkins, Illinois
• Maplebrook Elementary School
  Naperville Illinois
• Briar Glen Elementary School
  Wheaton, Illinois

 

Mooseheart Academy
Batavia, Illinois

 

Little Friends
Spectrum Vocational Services and Adult Day Care
Downers Grove, Illinois