Animal-Assisted Therapy

<p>Explore what it takes to become an animal-assisted pet partner devoted to working with at-risk teens in high schools across the Island of Montreal Quebec. From selecting an animal to training discover a team of professionals dedicated to bettering teenagers faced with life challenges and mental health disorders. The program teaches adolescents to socialize and train dogs rats horses and wolves to mend their ailments. </p><p>As the program progresses the students learn that the bond between a person and their animal has the power to heal many open wounds. Follow dogs Albear Hariette and George along with rats Charlotte Vincent and Alice as they conduct weekly school visits and forge friendships with an unlikely group of adolescents. </p>