Children’s Mental Health Week – Let’s Connect
Children’s Mental Health Week is from 6-12 February this year, and the topic is ‘Let’s Connect.’ One of our CAL Practitioners Adeline Pilfold has written a piece on her experiences in this area working with her school dog Waffle. As someone who has nearly always had...
World Sleep Day – 18th March 2022
World Sleep Day - 18th March 2022 Quality Sleep, Sound Mind, Happy World. World sleep day is designed to raise awareness of sleep as a human privilege that is often compromised by the habits of modern life. An annual event, intended to be a celebration of sleep and...
International Women’s Day!
Today is International Women's Day! At CAL we are blessed to have an amazing team of talented hard working women, all making a difference and all committed to improving the mental health and wellbeing of others through the human-animal bond. Celebrate the women in...
World Book Day
World Book Day, 3rd March 2022 Today is World Book Day, the theme for this year's world book day is ‘you are a reader‘ We support children every day, helping them become “a reader” For children who find reading tricky our dogs’ presence enables them to feel confident...
Children’s Mental Health week – growing together
Author Mollie Watkins CAL Practitioner This year's theme for Place2be's Children's Mental Health week growing together is encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown emotionally and how they can help others to grow. We grow physically from the...
School Dog Wellbeing
Canine Assisted Learning is dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of the children and adults we work with, through bespoke canine interventions and support. For this to be effectively achieved, our canine partners need to be in “tip top” condition...
The Child-Animal Bond
The Child-Animal Bond by Anglea Crook Working as an Animal assisted intervention practitioner encompasses so many varied aspects of therapeutic and strategic interventions in an enormous range of settings, including schools, universities, hospitals, the workplace,...
World Sleep Day – Sleeping Like a Baby
There are many factors that can affect our sleep. Stress, anxiety, medical conditions, what we eat and drink, our habits and guilty pleasures, room temperature, how and where we sleep. The list goes on. Add in the coronavirus effect on our lives and it adds another...
Eating Disorders and Staying Well in Lockdown
During the coronavirus pandemic many young people with eating disorders have found themselves struggling with a lack of routine and living with uncertainty, and similarly to other young people, experiencing a range of difficult thoughts and emotions. Whilst we are in...
