Opportunities From: Bethesda Willmar

Volunteer: Pet Visitors

Do you have a pet that is well-trained or certified as a pet therapy animal? Pet therapy is a guided interaction between a person and an animal. It also involves the animal’s handler. Our residents, and staff, enjoy pets that come to visit.  There are many therapeutic benefits to animal visits: 

making people happier, lessening depression, and improving your outlook on life decreasing loneliness and isolation reducing boredom reducing anxiety because of its calming effects

These are only a few of the reasons Bethesda welcomes pets into our facilities.

 

Program: Bethesda Day Break

Do you have a pet that is well-trained or certified as a pet therapy animal? Pet therapy is a guided interaction between a person and an animal. It also involves the animal’s handler. Our residents, and staff, enjoy pets that come to visit.  There are many therapeutic benefits to animal visits: 

making people happier, lessening depression, and improving your outlook on life decreasing loneliness and isolation reducing boredom reducing anxiety because of its calming effects

These are only a few of the reasons Bethesda welcomes pets into our facilities.

 

Program: Bethesda Day Break

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Flexible

Zip Code: 56201

Allow Groups: Yes