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Every day, we understand more about the exponential powers of our dogs. As five Heeling Autism service dogs head out into the world this afternoon, we marvel at the impact they’ll have in their new homes. They’ll help children and their parents, they will support siblings and friends, and they’ll strengthen families’ connections with their communities. Quite simply – they are going to make the world a better place.
Also amazing is the impact these five dogs have already had on the lives of the people involved with their journeys. At yesterday’s graduation ceremony, one puppy raiser thanked us for her experience, sharing that her dog had improved her relationship with her husband and supported their family through some very tough times. We always invite people to join the Guiding Eyes team as a volunteer or donor and to help us change lives; we continue to realize how much people’s own lives are forever changed as a result of their support.
Heeling Autism Gabriel heads home to Connecticut, where he’ll meet 5-year-old Thomas. Tom’s parents have been so worried about their son. His mom shared that now with Gabriel in their lives, they feel they have been given the best chance to provide Tom with a bright future.
Heeling Autism Daryl will live with the Forcello family. He’ll become a friend to 10-year-old Sean, and they’ll share a deep, meaningful relationship in which verbal communication is not important.
Joe Dolan will bring Heeling Autism Nixon home for his son Ryan. Joe explained that sharing activities with all of his children has been very difficult – or even impossible. With Nixon, Joe feels that Ryan will finally have the opportunity to get out with his family and experience life fully. Joe’s sister-in-law Alison has Guiding Eyes dog Winnie as her guide dog, and the Dolan family is the first ever to receive service dogs from both Guiding Eyes programs.
Heeling Autism dogs Gabriel, Daryl, Nixon, Indo and Gibbs will enable miracles in their new homes. Our hearts are with each one of them as they fulfill their destinies, and we can’t wait to hear about all that is yet to come.
Congratulations to the Heeling Autism graduating class of September 2012!
Guiding Eyes is grateful to the Hatfield Family Fund for generously sponsoring our September 2012 Heeling Autism class.
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 Heeling Autism Gabriel |
 Heeling Autism Daryl |
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 Heeling Autism Nixon |
 Heeling Autism Gibbs |
Love it! This blog made me cry! Best of Luck to those Lucky families
Better times await them!
Thanks Jen! Yesterday’s graduation made us cry too… the hope and love were tangible. We know you can relate.
Congrats to all the graduates!!! This will change your life for the better. We now have Belgium one year and she has been a miracle to our family. We are able to participate in all the opportunities our community has to offer. Andrew’s life is full of adventures that we never thought possible for him or our family.
Such an honor to be witness to the miracles and hope that abounds brought about by such a strong, loving and dedicated community.
Love this program. So wish our first dog, Wagner had made it all the way through the program but happy to have him hear with us.
Good Luck to all the families that recieved the gift of hope!!! I know that your lives will be forever changed because your prayers have been answered by something with 4 legs and big brown eyes!!! Caroline and her team changed my family’s life forever– Angels come into your life to help you!!!
Laura Altschuler & Yale
All the best good luck
would be intersterd about adog for my son who austism.would be please email me about the details thankyou.Email adress tracey.carragher@btinternet.com
Hi Tracey! You can learn more about our Heeling Autism program on our website – http://www.guidingeyes.org/autism. We’ll send you a quick note with the website too.
Congratulations to all of my doggie buddies who graduated from this wonderful program! I’m a therapy dog who works with individuals with autism, and I KNOW that you will have an amazing, positive impact on your new families! Love to you and tho your humans at Guiding Eyes!
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Thank you. Always fun to share about dogs.