Want to Brighten Someone's Life?
Brightening Lives is an animal visiting program where OHS volunteers visit long-term care facilities to provide animal visits to residents. Volunteers take owned dogs and cats to various residential settings such as hospitals, retirement homes and rehabilitation centers so the residents can benefit from animal contact. The animals provide an essential companionship service by bringing joy to those they visit and by helping people to increase communication, defeat loneliness and increase their self-esteem.
The Brightening Lives program has been visiting long-term care facilities, hospitals and other community service agencies since 1986. To commemorate the 20 th anniversary of the program in 2006, the name was changed from Companion Animals to Brightening Lives.
Learn how to become a volunteer in the Brightening Lives program.
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