The Go Team – Chicago Therapy and Crisis Dog Teams
The Go Team Therapy/Crisis Dogs is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization 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, and hospitals. Teams provide help to victims in distress and work with our servicemen, first responders, and anywhere a therapy/comfort dog is needed.
All of the dogs on The GO TEAM, are graduates of Sit Means Sit Dog Training as the National Instructor Nancy Trepagnier, over her 20+ years of training dogs, has found SMS training to be the most reliable for the dogs to perform at this level of work. The dogs must pass their CGC (Canine Good Citizen through the AKC) and dogs must be at least one year old prior to attending The Go Team Training and Testing.
The dogs’ training include real life situations working in Assisted Living and Nursing Homes, Paws2Read Library Events, Special Community Events, Elevator and Escalator Etiquette, Participating and Interacting with First Responders and much more…..
Training is Forever.
Sit Means Sit Dog Training and The GO TEAM Therapy Dogs organization’s philosophy is training does not stop after one class it continues for a lifetime.
If you would like to become part of The GO TEAM Therapy Dogs or would like more information about our organization, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to you being a part of our team!
Watch Video of Training and Testing Day 1 and Day 2: