Welcome to our therapy dog and community assistance dog program. This is a truly unique program for allied health and educational professionals to train their own dog to work within their workplace with clients/learners. Unlike most programs, our dogs are trained in specialist canine assisted activities for engagement with clients rather than the dog being just stroked or read to. 

Our therapy & community assistance dog program has three parts:

1) The Bronze award

This is the pre-requisite to formally starting the therapy dog/ community assistance dog training and must be completed by all prospective therapy dogs or community assistance dogs. This covers:

• Teaching basic obedience behaviours.
• Stopping any mild undesirable behaviours currently present (such as jumping up at people).
• Concept training to promote your dog developing into a well emotionally regulated, calm & confident pup who is developing impulse control. 
• Bronze therapy dog theory program covering reading and responding to your dogs emotions, welfare and more which includes VLE resource and flexible assignments to complete.

This program fees are on a sliding scale depending on structure & size of organisation. 

Therapy dog program costs (dog trained to silver award level):

• Small non-profit package (10 employees or less) costs £250 
• Small, for profit (10 employees or less) OR medium non profits (11-50 employees) costs £400
• Large organisations (11+ employees for profit or 51+ employees for non-profits) costs £750
• Non-profit schools cost £875
• Independent schools costs £1250

Community assistance dog program costs (dog trained to gold award level):

• Small non-profit package (10 employees or less) costs: £450 
• Small, for profit (10 employees or less) OR medium non profits (11-50 employees) costs £700
• Large organisations (11+ employees for profit or 51+ employees for non-profits) costs £1200
• Non profit schools: £1100
• Independent school costs: £1750

Fees include the therapy & community assistance dog program including group zoom classes & self guided VLE training resources, assessments,  resource templates, 3 monthly 1:1 session, dogs uniform.

The fees do not include the cost of resources for canine assisted activities (though you're likely to already own many  or be able to purchase at a low cost) and optional hire of Pawsitive squad branded equipment such as settle mats, handler uniform etc.  

Important note on financial terms:

Part of the written agreement between ourselves and therapy dog/community assistance dog clients is that you will not charge an additional fee for the therapy dog engaging with any specific session (e.g you can't say an OT session is £45 per hour standard but £55 per hour if the therapy dog is present). You can however of course increase your fees overall to accommodate the additional costs of having a therapy dog.