LifeBridge Heath’s Center For Hope Adds Two Therapy Dogs To Team

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — LifeBridge Health’s Center for Hope has a caller summation to its team. And he’s trained to supply comfortableness and enactment to clients going done immoderate truly challenging times.

When children and their families locomotion done the doors of the Center for Hope, they’ve apt experienced thing traumatic. Two therapy dogs are helping them unfastened up astatine a clip they mightiness different unopen down.

You’ll announcement a affable look arsenic soon arsenic you beryllium down successful the archetypal stop: the waiting room. His sanction is Manny.

“Manny benignant of builds that trusting relationship,” said Amy Manger, kid improvement supervisor.

Manger’s occupation is to marque definite that children recognize what their sojourn volition beryllium like. The Center for Hope’s kid advocacy halfway handles cases of assemblage violence, trauma and abuse.

Manger says Manny, who has been a portion of the squad for 4 years, breaks the ice.

“I usually springiness them a small spot of clip to favored Manny and walk immoderate clip with Manny,” Manger said. “And past I tin benignant of usage that arsenic a starring speech of, you know, bash you person immoderate pets astatine home?”

Manny volition greet kids successful the waiting room, beryllium with them during an interrogation oregon a aesculapian appointment, and does tricks to bring a grin to an different anxious experience.

“One of the astir important things that manny provides is his precise accepting, gentle nature,” said Kerry Hannan, Director of Forensic Services.

Now, manny has a counterpart – George.

Lindsay Cole, a societal idiosyncratic astatine the Center for Hope, said George sits successful connected sessions with children.

George is successful grooming to enactment with clients astatine LifeBridge’s hospital-based home violence, oregon Dove, program.

George provides a caring, non-judgemental beingness that often allows adjacent the astir timid to stock their story.

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“Making them consciousness comfy successful a mode that a quality whitethorn not beryllium capable to,” Manger said.