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  • 022370

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  • Published 2001.
  • 4 pages.

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Teaming Incarcerated Youth with Shelter Dogs for a Second Chance

Publication year: 2001 | Cataloged on: Jul. 03, 2007
ANNOTATION: An animal-assisted therapy and education program, Project Second Chance, is described. "Project Second Chance, a training program in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teams older teenage offenders with shelter dogs to foster empathy, community responsibility, kindness, and an awareness of healthy social interactions" (p. 1). This youth-intervention program is a partnership between the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center of New Mexico and the Animal Humane Association of New Mexico, Inc.
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