PAALS: Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services

PAALS is a 501c3 non-profit organization.

PAALS is a provisional member of the 

Assistance Dogs International (ADI). 

Misson

Enriching and empowering children and adults with physical disabilities and social needs by training service animals and providing animal assisted educational and recreational activities.

Goals

To train and provide service dogs for individuals with varying abilities. To train assistance animals to create activities for kids with physical and social challenges in South Carolina. To train and provide service animals for various special needs people in our community (ex. Therapy dogs). To increase assistance animal awareness. To provide a program where at-risk youth and/or retired individuals can give back to the community. To provide in training for therapeutic uses (ex. Use in ABA therapy for autistic kids).

Services

PAALS overall goal is to train assistance animals to help individuals with disabilities other than blindness or deafness. These animals can help with a vast array of tasks to assist with physical disabilities, and social needs as assigned assistance animals, or using them through quality programs to groups or organizations that can benefit from our assistance animals.

PAALS, Palmetto Animal Assisted Life Services is not affiliated with Practical Animal Assisted Life Services or the book Practical Partners. Practical Animal Assisted Life Services has recently changed their name to Dogs for Disabled.

To view the PAALS website, please click on link above.

To view the PAALS May 09 Newsletter: http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/226737/12c4baad3d/1582500029/2f8a7b771d/