Sponsors Wanted!
Velma’s Pets As Therapy Training School supports Velma’s Pets As Therapy visiting program.
Can you, your group, your work associates, your school, your church help?
Please sponsor pets as therapy visits to a hospital, health care facility or school for challenged children @ $73.00 per visit.
Velma’s Pets As Therapy visiting program (charity) are currently seeking kind sponsors for:
Ryde Royal Rehabilitation Unit, Ryde Hospital, Sydney; Ronald MacDonald House, Westmead Childrens Hospital, A Sydney Deaf and Blind School and others.
Left: Joan enjoying feeding Max and Cinnie
Right: Kristy enjoying a cuddle with Pumpkin (the guinea pig)
What Do Sponsors Receive?
* Regular photos of volunteers and pets interacting with challenged and frail, adults and children which can be placed on a notice board in your reception area; in your newsletter or on your web site.
* A mention in media interviews and articles. (Please see Current News and Notices for a list of media VPAT has appeared in.)
* Inclusion on the VPAT sponsor’s poster at VPAT stalls at pet shows and expos.
* As well as the personal rewards from knowing you have contributed significantly, a little happiness and joy into the lives of a frail, challenged and/or isolated adults or children.
Who Are VPAT?
Velma’s Pets As Therapy visiting program is a self-funded, registered charity mainly made up of volunteers who take specifically trained friendly pets to hospitals and other health care facilities; to visit frail and challenged adults and children, to offer mental, physical, emotional and social stimulation.
Where Does VPAT Visit?
Visit children and adults in hospitals, nursing homes, retirement villages, day care centers, and challenged individuals in private homes.
What Training Does VPAT People and Pet Visitors Receive?
All pets are assessed by a veterinarian for healthiness, a sound temperament and basic obedience specific to “safe” pets as therapy. The two-legged volunteers take a correspondence course based on safe interaction with frail adults and children, with a pet.
The course includes a foundation in the various illnesses and conditions challenged people experience and how best to communicate with them.
After the course, the volunteers are supervised on visits by trainers until they have reached an efficient and professional standard. When fully trained receive a course completion certificate.
VPAT’s highly trained volunteers and pets go anywhere, where a challenged or frail pet-loving adult or child is living, without a pet, to offer physical, mental, emotional and social stimulation plus cuddles and kisses from a friendly pet.
Please make cheques payable to: Velma’s Pets As Therapy Inc., Assoc. or contact VPAT for our bank details for a transfer of funds. Please send cheques to: Velma’s Pets As Therapy, Beecroft LPO, PO Box 387, Beecroft, NSW 2119. Or phone 0478 009 534 for the VPAT bank details for bank direct deposits.
