Mission
To enhance the lives of people and to promote the human-animal bond through animal-assisted activities and animal-assisted therapy.
Vision
Standards-based and effective animal-assisted interaction services delivered by all.
Core Values
Integrity: We insist upon ethical behavior in all things, inspiring trust by saying and doing what we mean, and taking responsibility for our actions.
Teamwork: We achieve together what none of us could do alone.
Respect for the Individual: We nurture and promote broad and diverse membership engagement, and we listen to, support, and genuinely care about one another through establishment of a mutually-supportive environment.
Service Excellence: We will be responsive and relevant to one another and to our clients by continually investing in our teams and by nurturing long-term value-driven relationships with our clients.
Teamwork: We achieve together what none of us could do alone.
Respect for the Individual: We nurture and promote broad and diverse membership engagement, and we listen to, support, and genuinely care about one another through establishment of a mutually-supportive environment.
Service Excellence: We will be responsive and relevant to one another and to our clients by continually investing in our teams and by nurturing long-term value-driven relationships with our clients.
Our Goals
Increase knowledge of the value of the human-animal bond and the effectiveness of animal-assisted activities/therapy.
Enhance the services of the healthcare and education communities by increasing the rate of healing and preparing children with important life skills.
Improve the information available to healthcare and education professionals on the utilization of trained therapy animals as a viable treatment modality.
Facilitate Delta Society’s Pet Partners program through licensed Instructors and Evaluators conducting handler training courses and animal-handler team evaluations to assess for skills and aptitude for being an effective volunteer therapy team.
Enhance the services of the healthcare and education communities by increasing the rate of healing and preparing children with important life skills.
Improve the information available to healthcare and education professionals on the utilization of trained therapy animals as a viable treatment modality.
Facilitate Delta Society’s Pet Partners program through licensed Instructors and Evaluators conducting handler training courses and animal-handler team evaluations to assess for skills and aptitude for being an effective volunteer therapy team.
