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Trained Pets As Therapy Volunteers Are Wanted By Health Care Facilities Everywhere!
Want To Help our Frail,
Aged and Vulnerable Communities?
 
Leah and Millie........ Tricia and Pandora
Highly educational home study course - details
Work as a paid 'pets as therapy' visitor!!
What do visitors need?
What training will you receive?
What is the aim of the course?
How is the course taken?
Locations of our course students and working
visitors
Course application form
We offer a National and International
Pets As Therapy Correspondence Training Course
Welcome to our pets as therapy program and to the marvelous
rewards and personal satisfaction gained from working as a trained
volunteer in a professionally structured and managed pet therapy
program.
Our volunteers often express how personally rewarding and satisfying
it is to gain the skills, understanding and methods, to interact
with adults and children with challenges; and to share the affection
of their pets to bring smiles to faces and joy into hearts - pets
have a habit of doing that to people, don't they!
If you live in the Sydney area
If you live in another state or country,
Volunteers Should...
Mother and daughter teams
What training will you receive?
The aim of the course is to show you how to...
How is the course taken?
Locations of our course students and graduates
Fill in the course application form
Sarah and Brandy
If you live in the Sydney area, we are looking for people
who would like to participate in offering conversation, companionship
and general interaction with the frail aged residents in a facility
in the NSW area, with a friendly pet, on a regular, ongoing basis.
If you live in another state or country, you may take our
Pets As Therapy Correspondence Training Course and we will show
you how to become a volunteer in your own area. Please e-mail or
phone Velma and ask for the course details and application form.
Jon and Kate with their menagerie
(all these pets passed the course pet assessment)
Visitors Should...
- enjoy meeting and talking with people from all walks of life
- be able to commit to offering a minimum of a few hours once
a week, fortnight or month, on a regular basis
- have a dog, cat or pet (or access to such a pet) which is
healthy, calm, friendly towards all people and other dogs and
is well mannered
You may be working with the frail aged or challenged children,
or any person who may benefit from kisses, cuddles and interaction
with a friendly pet.
Lee and Gemma (mother and daughter)
When you enroll in the course at the same time as a friend, there
is $25.00 discount off the second course.
This work can be challenging but can also be extremely satisfying
for community spirited people who enjoy communication, and can commit
themselves to a few hours on a regular basis.
What
Training Will You Receive?
Volunteers are required to take our Pets As Therapy Correspondence
Training Course, which gives a firm foundation in the challenges
that adults or children are likely to be experiencing at the health
care facilities you will be visiting.
Our course's priority is on health and safety awareness, issues
and procedures, which will keep your pet, yourself and the people
you visit, safe from injury or harm. It includes specific training
methods for your pet and if your pet is a dog, in basic obedience.
Upon successful completion of the course you receive an accreditation
certificate. We provide you with the paperwork, support and advice
to commence pets as therapy voluntary work, within your own location.
Anne and Terra
The Aim
Of The Course
Is To Show You How To...
- Work closely with the facilities' contact person, e.g. Diversional
Therapist,Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Behavioural
Therapist, Activities Officer.
- Be aware of the Health and Safety rules and regulations within
each facility.
- Confidently and comfortably interact with people with dementia;
the sight, hearing and speech impaired; the stroke challenged,
immobile and frail-aged; and physically, emotionally and intellectually
vulnerable adults and children.
- Be aware of each individuals needs and requirements regarding
pet interaction, and for each individual to receive the most psychological,
emotional, physical and social benefit and enjoyment from the
pet.
Michelle and Kyro
How Is The Course Taken?
Pets as therapy is 'highly skilled' work and requires
a comprehensive training course. There are many health, safety and
professional procedures to know plus an awareness of legal issues.
The course is HOME STUDY. You receive a training course manual.
You complete the questions at the end of each chapter. We read and
comment on your answers and return these to you.
Phone and e-mail advice and support is provided during
the course and if you have access to Sydney or the Central Coast
monthly, practical training is an optional extra. Course student
living in all areas receive phone and e-mail support. The course
takes approximately 50 hours home study and needs to be taken within
6 months of the start date.
Pets are required to be assessed for healthiness,
friendliness and if the pet is a dog, basic obedience before the
end of the course. The course trains students to train pets in their
own homes, to pass the assessment. 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
Locations of our course
graduates and
pets as therapy visitors 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
Click
here to fill in the course application form
Or, e-mail us to send you the full details of our Pets As Therapy
Correspondence Training Course. The course fee is $225.50 (Australian)
when taken by e-mail; or $291.50 when taken by usual Australia Post.
International students are required to take the course by e-mail.
Enjoy deeply rewarding and highly
beneficial paid work as a
'pets as therapy' visitor!!
Course graduates can choose to become volunteers or receive paid
work as a pets as therapy visitor. Paid work can generally be little
more than pocket money as pets are restricted to a maximum of 2
visits per day as they find the work tiring.
Want to work in a field where miracles
happen often?
Are you community spirited; have good people skills; available
once or twice a month on a morning, Monday-Sunday; have transport
and a friendly, healthy, well mannered pet that loves meeting people
and receiving lots of cuddles and kisses? Then you could be witnessing
little miracles yourself very soon!
Contact Velma for more details on 02 9418 4343 or email: velma@velmaspetsastherapy.com.au
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