Trained Pets As Therapy Volunteers, Paid Visitors and Health Professionals Are Wanted By Health Care Facilities, Nationally!
Want To Help our Frail, Challenged and Vulnerable Communities?
Leah with Millie and Tricia with Pandora
National and International training available with the Pets As Therapy Correspondence E-Course
This e-course is designed at a professional level so is ideal for health professionals and trains volunteers and paid ‘pets as therapy’ visitors to a professional standard.
This e-course enables people living through out Australia and the World with a computer to learn safe and beneficial professional ‘pets as therapy’ procedures.
This course is ideal for health professionals; people wanting to become a volunteer and/or pet lovers seeking a small income whilst working with their best 4-legged buddy.
Course graduates often express how personally rewarding and satisfying it is to gain and develop pet training skills, learning safe and effective ways to interact with adults and children with challenges; and to share the affection of their beloved pets to bring smiles to faces and joy into hearts – pets have a habit of doing that to people, don’t they!
Sarah and Brandy
If you live in or close to Wollongong, Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle, Velma’s Pets As Therapy visiting program are seeking more volunteers to join their dedicated team. They are looking for people with a pet that enjoys the attention of strangers, who would like to train to offer conversation, companionship and general interaction with the frail, vulnrable and challenged adults and children on a regular basis. If you live in the Sydney area between Wollongong and Newcastle and want to train in pets as therapy and become a volunteer contact Velma email: velma@velmaspetsastherapy.com.au
If you live in other areas the Pets As Therapy Correspondence E-course which will show you how to commence a successful ’pets as therapy’ program in your own area.
Health professionals wanting to commence a pets as therapy program in their local area or facility, can greatly benefit from the Pets As Therapy Correspondence E-course as this demonstrates how to assess and recruit people and pet volunteers; manage and monitor the program; how to offer beneficial interaction with the frail and challenged at the same time as observing strict health and safety procedures eliminating possible accidental injuries such as scratches to frail skin. Using the safety methods discussed in the course identifies all possible health and safety risks and offers procedures to eliminate all. Discusses legal and insurance issues.
Jon and Kate with their menagerie
Ideal Pets As Therapy Visitors Should -
- enjoy meeting and talking with people from all walks of life and making them smile
- have a dog, cat or pet (or access to such a pet) which is healthy, calm, friendly towards all people and is well mannered (the course includes specific pet obedience training for pets as therapy)
- be committed to learning – new pet training skills; health and safety procedures and how best to communicate with people with various challenges
- be reliable
- be healthy enough to walk around a health care facility for an hour
- have reliable transport
Lee and Gemma (mother and daughter)
Discounts Available
When you enroll in the course at the same time as a friend, there is $25.00 discount off the second course. Contact us to discuss group discounts.
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Anne and Terra
How Is The Correspondece Course Taken?
Pets as therapy is ‘highly skilled’ work and requires comprehensive training. There are many health, safety and professional procedures to know plus an awareness of legal and insurance issues are essential. The course is designed at a professional standard so even people intending to become pets as therapy volunteers need to operate at a professional standard when interacting with challenged, frail and vulnerable adults and children.
The course is HOME STUDY. You receive a training course package as an email attachment. You read each unit and answer the questions at the end of each unit. Most of the answers are in that chapter or the previous chapters. You return your answers to us. We read and comment on your answers and return these to you. The correspondence course takes approximately 30-50 hours home study. Course students used to studying are inclinded to complete the course after around 30 hours where as people who haven’t studied for a long time, may take around 50 hours.
Phone and e-mail advice and support is provided during the course. A Course Completion Certificate is awarded to volunteers and their pets on completion of the training course.
Julie receiving her course certificate at a volunteers meeting
Don’t Want To Study! You Can Receive The Course Package Any Way!
Receive the course package and read it through at your leisure or use as a reference library. You don’t have to study to receive the information. The read only course pacakge is $100.00.
Locations Of Our Course Graduates in Australia
Sydney - North, South, East and West
Southern Highlands
The Central Coast
Wollongong
Grafton
Byron Bay
Northern NSW
Dubbo
Brisbane
Canberra
South Australia
Adelaide
Victoria
Please e-mail us to send you the full details of our Pets As Therapy Correspondence E-course. The course fee is $379.50 (Australian) and taken by e-mail.
Contact Velma for full details on 02 9418 4343 or 0432 578 210 or email: velma@velmaspetsastherapy.com.au
