The Prison Pet Partnership Program, operating within the Washington State criminal justice system, has been a model for the nation in the rehabilitation of female offenders. It began in 1981 as the result of a ____ effort between Sister Pauline, a Dominican nun, and the late Dr. Leo Bustad, former chair of Washington State University's veterinary program, who believed that inmate rehabilitation could be ____ by the human-animal ____. Sister Pauline and Bustad worked ____ with Washington State University, Tacoma Community College, and the Washington State Department of Corrections to create this innovative program within the Washington State Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). The Prison Pet Partnership Program now helps inmates at the WCCW learn how to train, groom, and board dogs from within the prison walls. In 1991, the program was ____ as a separate 501(c)(3) agency. Program animals are placed ____ in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Since its ____, the program has placed over seven hundred dogs as service, seizure, or therapy dogs for children and adults with ____, and in families as pets. The Prison Pet Partnership Program gives inmate trainers the ____ to learn valuable pet-industry-related ____ skills to use in finding employment when they ____ their lives outside prison. They are able to work toward Pet Care Technician certification, levels one and two, through the American Boarding Kennels Association. All of the inmates who have graduated from our program have found employment upon ____. Additionally, over the past five years the recidivism rate among the graduates has remained at zero. In addition to training, boarding and grooming dogs, inmates also gain clerical skills by working in our office. To ____ that they receive ample experience in the pet care industry, inmate employees are ____ to spend a minimum of two years with us. The dogs also spend a great deal of time with their inmate trainers within the prison community, allowing other inmates to ____ from the dogs' presence even without being directly ____ in the program. We work proactively to ____ to the needs of individuals who experience seizures, those who live with various illnesses such as multiple sclerosis, and those who have multiple disabilities by providing well-trained dogs to ____ them in their daily activities and give them increased ____. According to Assistance Dog International, it takes approximately eight months to train these dogs, and only one out of every fifteen to twenty dogs selected for our program has the intelligence and temperament necessary to become a service or therapy dog. All of the animals in the program are taken from animal rescue organizations, allowing them to lead lives of service rather than be destroyed. Program dogs that ____ the necessary temperament to be trained as service or therapy animals are trained in basic obedience skills that allow them to be placed in the community as "Paroled Pets." Although part of the agency's funding support is ____ through a contract with the Department of Corrections, the program is ____ supported by foundations, animal welfare organizations, and ____ donors. A boarding and grooming service for the local community also provides the program with sustaining ____ support. The ____ for the program are 1. To place sixty dogs with recipients ____, with at least 25 percent of them being service/seizure or therapy animals. 2. To ____ a scholarship fund to assist inmates who are released from prison to continue their pet-industry-related education. 3. To continue to build the Veterinary Assistance Fund (started by the Bosack Kruger Foundation in 1995) to ____ quality veterinary care for our dogs before they are placed in the ____ and to assist a number of low ____ recipients of our dogs when they are ____ to pay their ____ bills. Studies on the human-animal bond reach the not surprising ____ that humans need the unqualified love and ____ that only animals can provide. Animals need to be loved in return. The shared ____ between our dogs, their trainers and, above all, their ____ owners provides a feeling of satisfaction that directly ____ to the mental and ____ wellness of all who are involved. This is the ____ of what the Prison Pet Partnership Program has provided over the years to the inmates who work with the dogs, the doge who are given the chance to lead lives of service, and the children, women, and men with disabilities who receive the well-trained dogs that ____ the quality of their lives.

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