Canada and Catalunya, two different nationalities, two different cultures sharing a single passion ... our love for animals
Five new programs of Animal Assisted Therapy in Mental Health Care Complex Benito Menni
30/01/2012
Starting in January and over a period of 10 weeks we will be visiting the mental health complex Benito Menni in order to provide animal-assisted interventions to a wide variety of residents. Two of the groups are a continuation of teamwork begun in 2011, one with young people from 12 to 18 years residing in the Adolescent Crisis Unit, and the other with seniors with mental health disorders. Thanks to the success of last year’s programme the dynamics of the youth group sessions will remain virtually the same. In the area of psycho geriatrics we will be working for the first time with the seniors in the D + E units and with those who come to the day care centre.
We are excited about the two new groups we will be working with, the mentally and physically disabled, and bed-ridden patients in the psyco-geriatric ward.
The Positivas Can canine team, Volka, Bau, Milu, Saburo, Kako and Shiro, will be accompanying us two days a week on our visits to Benito Menni, helping us work towards achieving the therapeutic goals established for each group.
The Second edition of the Animal-Assisted Therapy project in the Benito Menni Mental Health Welfare Complex a great success.
20/12/2011
For the last few months we have been holding AAT sessions in the Benito Menni Mental Health Welfare Complex in Sant Boi de Llobregat. The 17th of December marked the end of the 10 sessions which took place in two specialized units, the Adolescent Cr ...
Chicken Camp Level 2
11/12/2011
The Positivas Can team always aims to increase its training abilities and to this end we have participated in the second level of chicken training. As we have mentioned before, training chickens is a fun and easy way to improve your animal communica ...
The 1st Breaking Barriers Project ends with a demonstration inside the Els Lledoners prison
04/12/2011
On December 1st we brought the “Breaking Barriers” Els Lledoners project to a close with a demonstration inside the prison. The project took place over an eight-week period, the first time we carried it out with adult inmates. This ...
Dog Training with Young People
20/11/2011
November 15th was the final day of a three-day “Dog Training for Youth” program held in the Santa Anna primary school in Premia de Dalt. This course was organized by the PIJ "The Fletxa" (Youth Information P ...
