NEWS RELEASE
COPE SERVICE DOGS
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Buddy Up for COPE event is wrapping up this Wednesday, Oct.12, at Meridian Place, downtown Barrie. You are invited to join us for a mini walk from Meridian Place to Centennial Beach and back, where we will wrap up our event, thank our sponsors and partners and acknowledge our top fundraisers for COPE Service Dogs.
Buddy Up for COPE challenged participants from Barrie and Simcoe County to buddy up with their favourite COPE dog and get moving, any way they want, to help raise much-needed funds for Canines in the Classroom happening in Innisfil and Barrie at Nantyr Shores Secondary School, Barrie North Collegiate Institute and Bear Creek Secondary School.
What: Buddy Up for COPE Wrap-up Celebration and Walk
Where: Meridian Place
When: Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022
Time: 5 p.m.
About COPE Service Dogs
COPE Service Dogs is a local charity that breeds, trains and places service dogs with people with physical disabilities and at facilities. (i.e., Hospices, child & youth child advocacy centres, and schools for children with disabilities.
Each puppy receives two years of intensive training where they learn over ninety different commands to support the people they will serve. What makes COPE service dogs training method unique and innovative is that for the first year of their training, each dog is placed with several high school students who are at risk of not finishing high school. Canines in the Classroom gives students who are marginalized, have learning disabilities or may experience bullying, depression or anxiety an opportunity to gain experience in how to train service dogs and therapy dogs. The non-judgmental canines contribute to the student’s self-confidence, and as a result, the students overcome much of the anxiety and stress that can negatively impact their schoolwork, social lives, and academic success.
Find out more on this website.
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