Breaking Barriers and Building Bonds: Mutt-i-grees® and The Viscardi Center

The collaboration with North Shore Animal League America’s Mutt-i-grees Curriculum began with Viscardi’s Transition Services, which helps students research vocation paths. We welcomed students to our campus, wherever they experienced firsthand the attraction that goes into rescuing and rehabilitating stateless animals. Inspired by what they saw, a play unpaid internship programme was born. As students worked with animals — immoderate of whom had disabilities akin to their ain — they discovered newfound confidence. No longer conscionable recipients of care, they became caregivers, forming heavy bonds that underscored the powerfulness of empathy.

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For students incapable to travel, we launched virtual structure tours, bringing the satellite of rescue and adoption straight into their classrooms. Now, our concern is expanding adjacent further. We’re moving to beryllium portion of their Museum of Disability History, acceptable to unfastened successful autumn 2025. This groundbreaking grounds volition item the travel of disablement rights and see the relation of rescue dogs implicit the years.

While our animals connection lessons successful compassion, the students of The Viscardi Center besides thatch america astir strength, determination and possibility. Together, we are proving that challenges don’t specify america — our quality to emergence supra them does

To bring Mutt-i-grees to your schoolhouse oregon library, sojourn muttigrees.org oregon interaction america astatine muttigrees@animalleague.org.