It’s never cliche to say that a dog is a human’s best friend. Not only do dogs make great companions for someone in need, they make for a beautiful member of any family and are an asset to everyone that is lucky enough to have a dog. More importantly, dogs are extremely loyal to infants and young children.
In the video posted below, you’ll see what one detention centre is doing to help give trouble kids and dogs a second chance at life—it’s a therapeutic approach to help both of the parties in need. A youth detention centre in Sacramento, California has initiated a program called “Positive Impact” to help young teens identify positivity in life and the environment around them. How do they do this? Through canines.
The kids that are in this program are teens with a troubled past, and they’ve acquired a sense of hostility and seriousness that the centre wants to change. The organization that brings the dogs in encourages these troubled teens to actually help them make the dogs more adoptable. They then begin to connect with the dogs on a different level, and completely let their stringent guard down.
The teenagers are responsible for teaching the pups everyday commands, helping the dogs train for their new families, and helping the teenagers adapt a role of leadership. The dogs that come to this program are shelter dogs—they’ve been neglected and abandoned. There’s a good chance that the teenagers in the detention centre can therefore connect with them in a different way because somewhere they may have also felt feelings of being neglected, abused, and uncared for.
The “Positive Impact” program really helps give the teenagers and the dogs, alike, a second chance at life.
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