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POOCH will present at the HSUS Conference

DECEMBER 6-7, 2007, POOCH Director
JOAN DALTON will travel to Baltimore to participate in the National Technology Assessment Conference on Animal Assisted Programs for Youth-At-Risk sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States and the Center for Prevention of Youth Violence of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers, program leaders, and animal shelters from across the nation to enhance the field of animal assisted interventions for emotionally-troubled, at-risk, and adjudicated youth through evaluation research and development and dissemination of best practices. The project is supported by the Laura J. Niles Foundation.

Dalton has been invited to chair a discussion titled, “New Data on Animal Assisted Programs” on December 7th. Other participants include KATE DAVIS, MSW, PSU, who will present research findings from Project POOCH, and ARNOLD ARLUKE, Ph.D., Northeastern University, who gathered data at Project POOCH in 2005.

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