Paint Your Pet Party
By Kate Nicoll- Mar, 14, 2019
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Join us for a fun night of painting a portrait of your pet. Wednesday, April 24th at 5:30 at Westbrook Lobster House in Wallingford, $50 donation includes a drawn picture of your pet, submitted to kate@soul-friends.org at least one week prior to the event. Food and drink are available for purchase. Special thanks to Paint […]
Presentation at Boston Children’s Hospital
- By Kate Nicoll
- May, 11, 2012
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Last Saturday about 35 AAI practitioners from New England gathered at Boston Children’s Hospital for a networking meeting. Presentations from Tufts, Beth Israel, Soul Friends and Wheeler Clinic explored issues like therapy animal screening, policy issues and outcome measures. Our work at Soul Friends, Inc was well received.
- By Kate Nicoll
- Apr, 01, 2012
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Therapy Dogs at Work and Play
- By Kate Nicoll
- Oct, 22, 2009
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Every day provides an opportunity for a lesson learned in my life living with 4 therapy dogs – today the lesson from Noah is REST. As someone living with a chronic illness, while also trying to run a nonprofit – my mind often forgets to slow down. My body provides the daily reminder to stop moving, […]
Petflix Film Festival
- By Kate Nicoll
- Oct, 01, 2009
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Statewide nonprofit invites short film submissions to the first annual Petflix Film Festival on November 21, 2009. Celebrate your love of your pet dog, horse, cat and small animals and watch their story shown on the big screen. Or celebrate the work of your therapy dog or therapeutic riding partner.. For more information download entrance […]
Therapy Dogs at Work and Play : Series 1
- By Kate Nicoll
- Sep, 21, 2009
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Soul Friends therapy dogs love their work. Attached see a story on them at work with students at a school in CT. During this session the most amazing thing happened with one boy living with autism spectrum who had participated in our program four months earlier. He walked in for a special hello and his first […]
Help Build Equine Program!
- By Kate Nicoll
- Nov, 24, 2008
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Support our efforts to build an equine program – and please donate at this holiday season. Soul Friends has had a pony donated if we can raise $6,000 by the end of the year.
Soul Friends in the News
- By Kate Nicoll
- Sep, 04, 2008
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Dogs Help Special Needs Children, Meriden Record Journal, February 16, 2007 Pet Loss, New Haven Register, April 2006 New Haven Register, March 2008 Article on the treatment of children who abuse animals Middletown Press, March 2008, Dogs help kids Hartford Courant, March 2008, Muffin and Bear help kids cope
Make a Difference – One Wagging Tail at a Time
Many children throughout the state of Connecticut are in need of animal assisted therapy, Soul Friends staff is dedicated to providing these children access to this care.We believe in the power of the love from an animal friend to help children cope with major life circumstances, to help change behavior and to try something new to bring about hope.
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