We are proud to have continued to support clients through the COVID19 pandemic, while doing all we can to minimise the spread of the virus through our organisation and the community. Both our assistance dog and former therapy dog (now the specialist team dog program) and most of our canine assisted activities have continued online. 

We are increasing our in person services, in line with the governments pathway out of lockdown, this includes restarting our face to face assessments and workshops. Our in person canine assisted activities are also resuming in June 2021. 

Steps we are taking to help to protect our clients and community from the Covid 19 while accessing our services include:

• working outdoors where ever possible
• staff and volunteers having a home Covid swab test 3 days before hand and on the day of in person assessments and workshops. All members of the household of clients attending events are highly encouraged to do a home Covid19 test before attending. 
• Smaller group numbers of up to 6 people per workshop or assessment
• Hand sanitiser readily available
• Markers provided to promote social distancing

While the past 15 months have been difficult for us all, we at Pawsitive Squad are trying to keep things positive by sharing lots of exciting achievements and positive content through our social media. Despite the pandemic, our organisation has doubled in size and  we've even had 5 assistance dog partnerships pass their gold award since March 2020 to become fully trained assistance dogs.