Paws and Peers MPS

Introducing Nancy Parra-Quinlan as the next coordinator. Nancy is an experienced Paws handler with her two pups, Bear & Olaf. She will be leaving her teaching position at Kino Junior High to explore the new world of Paws & Peers! We’re excited for her and know her teaching experience will be a great asset to this position in support of the handlers. Go Nancy!

What an incredible 4 years it has been being the MPS district support specialist. I am so proud of this program. Nelly and I have met so many wonderful educators and therapy dogs. Thank you for following along on Instagram and Facebook. I will greatly miss this work. Nelly has completed ~7.5 years of therapy dog service with me in 💙🩵🐶🐾 We are moving out of state and will be passing off the opportunity to another experienced staff handler.

Welcoming new pups! These adorable dogs just passed their AAT. ❤️

Therapy dog classes have started for spring! We are looking forward to working with this next round of teams.

We hope you all had a wonderful spring break! 🍀

Bear and Olaf visited with students at Jersey College of Nursing during their iCare week.

Nelly visited EVIT today 💙

These pups enjoyed spreading Valentine’s love to students on Friday ❣️💝💖

Chief is in training and enjoying all the pets from our volunteers.

A new group of therapy pups in-training has started class. We are looking forward to taking them out on outings to practice their skills 🩵