Dear Lord Beaverbrook High School community,

Is it with great excitement that we are offering our students a unique opportunity to support their health and wellbeing as we start into exam season next week.

We have organized a special day on Friday, January 17th where the organization Community Therapy Dogs Society, will be visiting the school with nine specially trained therapy dogs through their program “Caring Tails”.

“Caring Tails (CT) is a program that recognizes people need help coping with stress/anxiety caused either through a traumatic event that has happened to them or a short term challenge that life has thrown at them. The type of therapeutic help provided by our dogs is tailor made to fit each situation but has the common theme that dogs provide a level of comfort that only they can. Some examples of how our dogs can help would be: visiting high school students before and during exam times, being alongside students who suffer from high anxiety on a day-to-day basis, being there for families who are trying to pull their lives together after a traumatic event… CT operates in the city of Calgary and surrounding areas.” https://www.ctds.ca/programs

The CTDS will be visiting the school from 10:00am – 2:00pm on Friday, January 17, 2025. The dogs will enter and exit the school during low traffic hallway times and will remain in one resource classroom for the duration of the visit. Students will be allowed to visit the dogs in small groups, and the handers will be present the entire time.

This is an OPTIONAL opportunity for any student who wishes to visit with the therapy dogs, and there is no requirement for any student to participate.

If you would like more information about the Community Therapy Dog Society, please visit their website www.ctds.ca . If you have further questions about the visit to LBHS please contact Catherine Fischer at cafischer@cbe.ab.ca.