Volunteer

Prison Pet Partnership Program Volunteer Opportunities

Office

• Help with newsletters, mailings, and other office work.

Fundraising

• Help the program raise funds and secure donations by identifying potential funding sources, participating in fund-raising events, and identifying potential equipment/food donors, appeals, annual auction, grants, solicitation

Socialization Activities

• Help socialize our program dogs to homes, children, dogs, other pets, malls, stores, elevators, busses/trains/airplanes, stairs, churches, restaurants, cinemas, parks, libraries, doctor/dentist offices, etc. Stay up to date on individual dogs' training by coming to weekly training sessions.

Selection

• Help select potential service dogs for the program by frequenting shelters, temperament testing dogs and notifying program staff of potential dogs.

Team Training

• Attend team training to learn about the process of placement of service dogs with their new partners. Assist with training, arrangements, transportation, set-up, outings and public access testing. Help plan and set up lunch for one or all days of training.

Follow up

• Observe or conduct home visits and public access tests with service dog teams. Assist with interviews of applicants. Help plan and organize service dog team meetings, reunions and events.

Paroled Pets

• Conduct home interviews of applicants to assess suitability for adoption of a paroled pet. Fostering
• Temporarily foster paroled pets to make room for service dogs in training at the facility.
• Temporarily foster and assess new program dogs as they make the transition from the shelter to the training facility. This is for experienced and approved volunteers only.

Transportation

• Help transport program dogs to or from the veterinary appointments, homes, and animal shelters.

Dog Walking

• Help out and gain some experience at the same time by walking boarding dogs in the field at the PPPP kennel facility.

Instructing Inmates

• Utilize your experience to present a relevant topic to the inmates. Possible areas of interest include: training, behavior, boarding, grooming, office skills, public relations, life skills, interpersonal skills, etc.

Special Events

• Help educate the community by staffing information booths at dog shows and other community events, giving presentations and demonstrations, talking to people in public about the program, and distributing program material.

Interested in volunteering? Please make out an application.