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REGIONAL WORKSHOP OFFERED:
Official R.E.A.D. training is offered periodically by licensed R.E.A.D. instructors:
Maggi Payne (maggi@READingPaws.org) in the North Fort Meyers area.
Karen Prichard (cherrypointdtc@aol.com) in the Pensacola area.
Bonnie London (elraytibby@aol.com) in the Shalimar area.
Shirley Roux (sroux@comcast.net) in the Tallahassee area.
Patty Mitchell (pnalani@comcast.net) in the Tallahassee area.
Karen Murphy (kesar33@aol.com) and Patsy Hunter (aupatsy@cox.net) in the Ft. Walton Beach area. and Merilee Kelley (Merilee@READingPaws.org) in the Orlando area. Please contact them for complete details of location, dates, schedule, and cost.
Organization: Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Animal Therapy Program
Program Name: Tallahassee R.E.A.D.s!
Contact: Patty Mitchell
City: Tallahassee
State: Florida
Email: pnalani@comcast.net
Notes: During the school year, our 26 R.E.A.D. teams make weekly visits to 11 elementary schools, 2 after-school centers, and a Family Reading Room in a branch of our library system. Our teams work with students grades 1-6 during regular school hours, after school, and early evening sessions. We have 24 dogs and 2 cats in our local R.E.A.D. chapter!
Organization: Cherry Point Dog Training Center, LLC
Contact Name: Karen Prichard, R.E.A.D. Instructor
City: Pensacola
State: Florida
E-mail: cherrypointdtc@aol.com
Website: www.cherrypointdtc.com
Notes: We offer R.E.A.D. training workshops for the Florida Panhandle and lower Alabama areas. One of our goals is to educate our community about Reading Education Assistance Dogs and establish new programs in our area. We are currently working to train new R.E.A.D. teams to meet the needs of local schools after-school programs, churches, libraries, and requests for special events.
Organization: Dynamic Dog Club
Program Name: Dynamic R.E.A.D.ers
Contact Name: Bev Johnson
City: The Villages
State: Florida
E-mail: info@dynamicdogclub.com
Website: www.dynamicdogclub.com
Notes: Membership is obtained with The Villages Resident ID Card. We serve both public and charter schools, after-school programs, libraries, bookstores, and camp programs.
Organization: Emerald Coast FURever Friends
Program Name: Come, Sit, Stay, & R.E.A.D.
City: Numerous cities in the Panhandle area
State: Florida
Contact Name: Patsy Hunter
E-mail: aupatsy@cox.net
Phone Number: 850-865-7033 or cell: 850-865-7888.
Website: www.EmeraldCoastFureverFriends.com
Notes: Current monthly programs at Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Pensacola Tryon, Pensacola Downtown, Southwest Pensacola, and Eglin Air Force Base Libraries. Current programs at 2 Elementary schools, one in Santa Rosa County and one in Escambia County.
Organization: Pawsitive Pets, Inc.
City: Jacksonville
State: Florida
Contact Name: Lucinda Chapin, Pres or Kelly Blackburn, Executive Director
Phone Number: 888-315-2329 or 904-992-4533.
E-mail: info@pawsitivepets.org
Website: www.PawsitivePets.org
Notes: Our R.E.A.D. teams are currently serving: public schools
and libraries, children's learning centers and local bookstores in Northeast Florida.
Organization : READing Paws/Florida Chapter
Contact Name: Merilee Kelley
City: Ocoee
State: Florida
Phone Number: 321-251-6001
E-mail : info@READingPaws.org
Website : www.READingPaws.org
Organization: Star Bright Therapy Dogs and Obedience
Contact Name: Dot Blair, Founder/Director
City: Port St. Lucie
State: Florida
E-mail: bdorothy@hotmail.com
Notes: The Star Bright Therapy Dogs, an organization which of evaluates, tests, trains, and supports therapy dogs for the purpose giving loving and empathic support in nursing homes, hospitals, psychiatric wards and other facilities. Star Bright also provides basic obedience classes. Star Bright dogs are working in a reading program at the St. Lucie County Library system.
Organization: Tails To Read
City: Ocala
State: Florida
E-mail: puppy5234@aol.com
Notes: Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Libraries, Schools.
Organization: Tales With Paws
Contact: Jo McGinnis
County: Seminole
State: FL
E-mail: taleswithpaws1@aol.com
Notes: Serving Schools in Seminole County, Florida.
Contact Name: National R.E.A.D. Coordinator
Phone: 801-272-3439
E-mail: read@therapyanimals.org
Notes: For more information on registered R.E.A.D. teams or groups in this state, please contact the ITA office.
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The ITA R.E.A.D. program is touching hearts across the nation. The following is a partial list of R.E.A.D. Affiliate Programs, Regional Workshops, and individual R.E.A.D teams. It is our hope that this list will help put R.E.A.D. teams in contact with programs and workshops in their area. If you would like to add your program to this list please send an email to the National R.E.A.D. Coordinator at the ITA office (read@therapyanimals.org).
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have programs hosting regional workshops. Also, many R.E.A.D. instructors are willing to travel. Please feel free to contact one of them about setting up a workshop specifically designed for your group.
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