Causes: Animal Services, Animals, Crime & Law, Health, Health Care, Inmate Support, Job Training, Vocational Rehabilitation
Mission: The prison pet partnership program rescues and trains homeless dogs to provide service dogs for persons with disabilites and operates a boarding and grooming facility to provide vocational education to women inmates.
Programs: The vocational education program currently employees 18 offender staff. Twelve of these women work in our boarding facility working with anywhere from 28 to 45 dogs. Job duties include feeding, walking, cleaning and overall environmental management of a kennel. The grooming department of ppp currently employees 6 offender groomers. These women groom over 250 dogs and cats per month. Two of the groomers have their certification from the international professional groomers in salon details and have also taken the practical exam for the non-sporting breed. Four new grooming students started the program in april and are in training for the salon details certification. Ppp saw one of its long time offender employee release into the community in august of this year. Only 2 weeks after her release she was able to land as a pet dog groomer.
in the past year, the service dog program rescued 20 dogs from shelters, rescue groups and private individuals from the region and throughout the country. These dogs were placed with women inmates for obedience training and advanced service dog training at two women's prisons. Between the two locations, the service dog program employed 23 women inmates as primary or secondary trainers. Eight women graduated from the training program. During their time working as trainers, these women collectively trained 30 adopted pets with basic obedience. The service dog program provided classes in basic canine care, basic & advanced obedience training as well as service dog training. These classes provided almost 200 hours of education and training to 40 women. Volunteers devoted over 2600 hours, helping promote the service dog program at local festivals and events and helping socialize our dogs to working in public.
Mission: The prison pet partnership program rescues and trains homeless dogs to provide service dogs for persons with disabilites and operates a boarding and grooming facility to provide vocational education to women inmates.
Programs: The vocational education program currently employees 18 offender staff. Twelve of these women work in our boarding facility working with anywhere from 28 to 45 dogs. Job duties include feeding, walking, cleaning and overall environmental management of a kennel. The grooming department of ppp currently employees 6 offender groomers. These women groom over 250 dogs and cats per month. Two of the groomers have their certification from the international professional groomers in salon details and have also taken the practical exam for the non-sporting breed. Four new grooming students started the program in april and are in training for the salon details certification. Ppp saw one of its long time offender employee release into the community in august of this year. Only 2 weeks after her release she was able to land as a pet dog groomer.
in the past year, the service dog program rescued 20 dogs from shelters, rescue groups and private individuals from the region and throughout the country. These dogs were placed with women inmates for obedience training and advanced service dog training at two women's prisons. Between the two locations, the service dog program employed 23 women inmates as primary or secondary trainers. Eight women graduated from the training program. During their time working as trainers, these women collectively trained 30 adopted pets with basic obedience. The service dog program provided classes in basic canine care, basic & advanced obedience training as well as service dog training. These classes provided almost 200 hours of education and training to 40 women. Volunteers devoted over 2600 hours, helping promote the service dog program at local festivals and events and helping socialize our dogs to working in public.
9601 Bujacich Road Nw, Gig Harbor, WA 98335
253-851-9752
Animals
Gig Harbor
