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The Calais School announces, with heartfelt appreciation, the retirement of Star, a beloved and dedicated therapy dog. For the past four years, our Black Labrador Retriever has been an essential part of our award winning therapy dog program. Upon joining [...]
For over 10 years, Calais has tapped into the power of man’s best friend to deliver therapeutic services to students with disabilities. Today, we are home to one of the nation’s first school-based therapy dog programs, integrated through a proprietary [...]
How incredible that something so small can have such a big impact? On the surface, a bead is a simple decorative object, but at The Calais School, we know a bead can mean so much more! Through BEADS OF COURAGE®, [...]
Here at The Calais School, “The Dog Days of Summer” may not mean what you think. When many of us are enjoying the lazy, hazy dog days of summer, our Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) dogs are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and [...]
How AAI Began It started with only a few volunteer therapy dog handlers from St. Hubert’s Animal Shelter and their dogs who visited The Calais School to work with students a few days a week. Though these visits brought much [...]
The human-animal bond is quite powerful and can be harnessed in many ways. For instance, at The Calais School, home to our groundbreaking Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) Program, we integrate therapy dogs to help our students gain confidence, build skills [...]
