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Big Roundup 2024
Support the Pet Prescription Team: Bringing Comfort and Compassion for 21 Years
Our Mission:
Founded in 2003 by Krystal Emery, the Pet Prescription Team has been delivering love, comfort, and healing through therapy animals for over two decades. With over 100,000 visitations documented, our dedicated volunteers and their therapy pets have brought compassion to those in hospitals, retirement homes, schools, libraries, jails, and special programs.
​Why Your Support Matters:
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Our therapy animals are a source of joy and healing for people facing difficult times. Whether it's a child finding comfort in reading to a therapy dog, or an elderly patient feeling the warmth of a visit, the impact of these animals is immeasurable. Over the past 21 years, we’ve partnered with organizations such as Ronald McDonald House, Los Angeles County Jails, Orange County Jails, and countless others to serve communities in need.
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Our Goal:
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We aim to raise 21,000 to support our ongoing operations and expand our reach to new communities. With your help, we can continue bringing the power of pet therapy to more people across California.
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How You Can Help:
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Your donations, no matter the size, make a big difference! Even if you can’t contribute financially, you can help by sharing this campaign with your network.
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Your generosity ensures that the Pet Prescription Team can continue its mission of spreading compassion and healing through the love of animals. Together, we can provide comfort to thousands more in need.
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Will you help us make our goal by donating today?
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Who We Are
The Pet Prescription Team is a leader in the field of Animal Assisted Therapy and as such we strive towards enhancing quality of life through the human animal bond. We are an all volunteer certified therapy dog organization who visit local area hospitals, assisted care facilities, rehab facilities, mental health facilities, library programs, hospice, Los Angeles County jails, Los Angeles County Juvenile correctional facilities, United States Attorney General offices and special needs children homes and schools.
Therapy Dog Certification
The volunteers of the Pet Prescription Team come from every walk of life. We offer therapy dog training classes in Los Angeles & San Diego county. Perspective volunteers and dogs go through an 8 week therapy dog training class which involves training the pet owners and their family pets to make visits. These classes occur inside of a facility, and utilize hands on training to cover how to deal with people and events in various situations that may occur during the therapy visitations.
Projects
Over the past 16 years the Pet Prescription Team has started numerous projects which benefit the communities they serve.
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Faith Dog Project 2008
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HBIC (Help for Brain Injured Children Program) 2009
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Kaiser Los Angeles 2009
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Kaiser Downey 2010
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There’s No Place Like Home 2012
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CAC 2015 Children's Advocacy Center for Child Abuse Assessment
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Ontario Airport Comfort Dog Program 2014
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Human Trafficking Task Force 2016
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Los Angeles County Twin Towers Jail 2016
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Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall 2017
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United States Attorney General Los Angeles Headquarters 2018
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Disneyland Wellness Program 2022
Pet Prescription Team is a Non-Profit 501c3 organization and is supported by those that believe in the cause and work that is provided to the communities we serve.
501c3: 37-1596134
Meet the Founder/Director
Krystal Emery
Krystal Emery is the founder and director of the Pet Prescription Team and is the overarching leader of the team in its entirety. Krystal and her husband Philip of 45 years, work side by side, helping pet owners train their family pets to become Certified Therapy dogs.
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Before becoming a Dog Trainer and Founder of the Pet Prescription Team in early 2003, Krystal and Philip experienced firsthand the suffering and isolation elderly and mentally ill patients experience through being confined to a facility through the diagnosis of Philips father with Alzheimer’s. During the care of Philips father they both were able to see how beneficial their family dogs were in the comforting of not only Philips father but to other residents in the facility where he lived. In some cases it was the only visitor many of the residents ever received. It was through this experience that the Pet Prescription Team was born.
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