Go Team Therapy Crisis and Airport Dogs Inc

Our handler/dog teams are dedicated to placing well-trained, certified therapy dog teams in programs that provide comfort and caring through a canine-human bond. Our special volunteers serve in a wide variety of settings including assisted living homes, libraries, schools, airports and hospitals. Teams provide help to victims in distress and work with our servicemen, first responders, and anywhere a therapy/comfort dog is needed.

We strive to recruit and train more handler-dog teams and facilitate more therapy dog visits in our communities. Our strategy to achieve these goals is to continue delivering a high quality training/certification program for qualified candidates, re-certify active teams annually, and maintain a support network for active teams (e.g. admin, guidance, oversight, and visit assistance).

Leverage both paid staff, independent contractors, and volunteers to deliver training and support active handlers. Maintain a vast social media presence to share ideas for reaching out to communities.

Our program has grown significantly from those 2 original dog/handler teams, from 2012. We are nationwide and have teams overseas. Our community impact is measured by hours served and in 2021, we volunteered 26,733 hours nationwide. We also measured our miles traveled to serve our communities and train our teams and traveled 161,257 miles nationwide.
GO TEAM received the American Red Cross Hometown Heroes award four times in the last five years for performing extraordinary community service in Colorado. Additionally, GO TEAM received a 2020 American Kennel Club (AKC) Paw of Courage for helping medical professionals on the front lines of the battle against COVID 19. Read more about GO TEAM’s impact here: https://goteamdogs.org/impact/