2011 Hope Floats Featured Recipient: Canine Angels

www.canine-angels.org

Canine Angels Service Teams fills a unique niche in the service dog world by providing specially trained service dogs, at no cost, to children as young as five. We focus on short, intermediate, and long-term observable outcomes designed to have a positive, life-impact on the children.

Canine Angels Mission Statement

With passion, purpose, and integrity,Canine Angels Service Teams (CAST) raises  and trains exceptional dogs for children with special needs, promoting the child’s independence and providing a better quality of life through a canine connection.

Canine Angels Service Teams is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that places professionally trained assistance dogs with children and young adults between the ages of 5 and 25 that have physical and developmental disabilities.

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SOASTC (Southern Oregon Adolescent Study and Treatment Center)

Our mission and primary objectives are to provide high quality services in residential and community settings; to develop partnerships with parents and the community in the delivery of these services; to advocate for youth suffering from chronic and persistent mental illness and their families; and to seek to continually improve services through performance measurement and quality improvement activities.
For more information visit: www.soastc.org

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WCST (Women's Crisis Support Team)


 

 





WCST's Mission-We believe in:
Declaring freedom from fear of abuse, which is a basic human right.
Empowering survivors of violence to make their own choices by exercising their right to self-determination.
Respecting women, men, and children equally.
Breaking the cycle of violence through education.
Offering a program that balances prevention, intervention and support.
Endorsing public policy that makes violence unacceptable.
Conducting our own affairs in an ethical and caring way.

For more information visit: www.wcstjoco.org We believe in:Declaring freedom from fear of abuse, which is a basic human right. Empowering survivors of violence to make their own choices by exercising their right to self-determination. Respecting women, men, and children equally. Breaking the cycle of violence through education. Offering a program that balances prevention, intervention and support. Endorsing public policy that makes violence unacceptable. Conducting our own affairs in an ethical and caring way. Establishing WCST's leadership role in the community in promoting a safe environment, and in making domestic violence and sexual assault unacceptable.