Incarcerated women at the Nebraska Correctional Center for Women (NCCW) recently trained Travis, a reading dog, who now works at the Lincoln Mall.
The pupose of a reading dog is to allow children who are having trouble with reading for whatever reason to use the dog to read to. This eliminates the fear of being laughed at or rejected.
NCCW is working hand in hand with Domesti-Pups in developing a new training program for Emotional Support (ES) dogs. Currently there is a training program for all other types of Service and Therapeutic Dogs except ES dogs. The goal is to develop a training plan to present as a standard so that all types of service related dogs are properly trained prior to being placed with a person or people in need of assistance.