Moving on to therapy or emotional support animals, New York is bringing in unlikely allies to teenagers in trouble with the law in the form of dogs.

Rising Ground is using therapy dogs to help these teens. Lisa Crook, Vice President for Justice for Youth and Families Programs of Rising Ground, says that this method allowed them to get through the kids quicker, therapeutically.

It also helps them cope with residential placement. While there for six to seven months, they learn life skills, vocational training, receive counseling and peer support and take trips outside the city.

They are encouraged by Oliver Martell, a Vocational and Educational Coordinator of Rising Ground, to think about where the dogs started when they started training them and where they are now. Both teens and dogs learn and grow from this experience as the program aims to train the dogs to become certified therapy dogs which will be tested after the 8-week program by Josh Abolt, owner of  Backcounrty K-9 Training.

So far, the program has been successful and the arrests have decreased, says Crook.

Article source: jjie.com

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