Where We Go
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 (moved to Gottlieb Hospital in Melrose Park)
- 4th floor Pediatrics
- Bernadin Cancer Center
- Ronald McDonald House (for families of hospitalized children)
- Stritch School of Medicine
- Marcell Neihoff School of Nursing/ Health Sciences Library
- "On Call" visits throughout the hospital
- Loyola Medical Resident Physician Wellness
Hines Veterans Administration Hospital
Hines Illinois
- Blind Rehabilitation
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Spinal Cord RCF
- Outpatient Mental Health Clinic
- Inpatient Psychiatry
- Extended Care / Geriatrics / Hospice units
- Medical / Rehabilitation unit
- Fisher House (for families of hospitalized veterans)
Oak Trace Senior Living Community
Downers Grove, Illinois
- Assisted Living
- Independent Living
- Medicare units
- Dementia units
Villa St Benedict Senior Living Community
Lisle, Illinois
- Assisted Living
- Independent Living
"Read With Me" and school programs:
- Tate Woods Elementary School in Lisle
- Brookdale Elementary School in Naperville
- Scheisher Elementary School in Lisle
- Hodgkins Elementary School in Hodgkins
- White Eagle Elementary School in Naperville
- Westfield Elementary School in Glen Ellyn
- Mooseheart Child Village Elementary School in Batavia
- Compass Preschool and Kindergarten in Naperville
- Arbor View Elementary School in Glen Ellyn
- Manor Hill Elementary School in Lombard
- Pleasant Lane Elementary School in Lombard
- Hillcrest Elementary School in Downers Grove
- Pierce Downers Elementary School in Downers Grove
- Ann M. Jeans Elementary School in Willowbrook
- Meadowview Elementary School in Woodridge
- Wesley Elementary School in Addison
- Schafer Elementary School in Lombard
- Downers Grove North High School
- Lincoln Way High School in New Lenox
- Wheaton College
- University of Illinois College of Dentistry
- Bloomingdale Public Library
- Broadview Public Library
- North Riverside Public Library
- Naper Boulevard Public Library in Naperville
- 95th St Library Public Library in Naperville
- Nichols Public Library in Naperville
- Woodridge Public Library
- Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien
- Lisle Public Library
- Forest Park Public Library
- Broadview Public Library in Broadview
- The Mansion School in Naperville