Charity statements
Trainee School Dogs and their owners after a group training session
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DHK Fund Raising Event Courtesy of the North Devon Journal
Dogs Helping Kids primary aim is to educate, help and support children and teenagers of all ages, backgrounds, sexes and abilities. This is achieved by training up very special dogs to an incredibly high standard to work in the school and college environment as both educational and therapeutic aids.
The impact these special dogs have on children and teenagers in the educational environment is amazing. Academic research has shown that dogs working and helping in the school environment can achieve the following:-
1) Improve academic achievement
2) Increase literacy skills
3) Calm behaviour down
4) Increase social skills and self esteem
5) Increase confidence
6) Teach responsibility and respect to all life
7) Help prevent truancy
8) Motivate children who are often not that attentive
Mission Statement
Dogs Helping Kids is dedicated to using highly trained dogs to help teach children non-violence, empathy, respect, kindness, love, responsibility, friendship and trust
Vision Statement
To have a dog working and helping in every school in the United Kingdom
Further Aims of D.H.K.
Promote the positive role that dogs have and deserve in today’s society especially with regard to the ways in which dogs can both enhance children’s lives and help children.
Promote the effectiveness and uniqueness of the child-dog bond and the tremendous impact this can have on the individual child.
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please contact us.
©DHK Dogs Helping Kids, Charitable Trust
Callanish, Eastacombe, Tawstock, Barnstaple,
North Devon, EX31 3NX
