Healing Species  - View Video

The Healing Species is an 11-week violence prevention/character education and compassion education outreach.  Through the assistance of rescued dogs, Healing Species teaches children, usually in grades 4 – 6, a process they can use to understand and overcome abuse, neglect and grief while teaching life skills in self-esteem, conflict resolution, anger management, respect for the feelings of others, and in gaining success through acts of compassion and responsibility instead of returning “violence for violence”.

Through several years of research and personal interviews with convicted violent offenders, former attorney Cheri Brown Thompson discovered that all the offenders had two things in common: 1) they were abused as children and 2) they first “acted out” abuse on the only creatures more vulnerable than they, animals.  Once Thompson discovered the relationship between animal cruelty and human violence, she founded Healing Species which takes rescued dogs into classrooms to teach children compassion and how to overcome one’s past of abuse and neglect and employ non-violent responses to bullying.

Piedmont Technical College’s Laurens County Higher Education Center seeks to serve as an instructor training site for Healing Species teachers.  For more information, contact Dr. Peggy Prescott, Dean, LCHEC at (864) 938-1501.

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