Therapeutic Dog Training Program

In Legacy Center’s Leadership Program, each team creates an extreme makeover project in the community with budgets that usually exceed $30,000. The challenge: the project must be complete in two days, the team cannot use any of their own money, the community performs 75% of the work, and the planning phase is less than one month.
Dog Training to Rehabilitate Incarcerated Boys

In two days during a snowstorm, NC 116 helped create a pet training program at Swannanoa Valley Youth Development Center, a secure custody juvenile facility for young men incarcerated for serious acts of delinquency. The program is now integrated into the treatment program. Incarcerated youth who participate in therapeutic pet programs are less likely to re-offend. Budget: $20,000

Tangible results!
- Fenced in an entire acre for exercising and training dogs.
- Installed a 100 ft by 100 ft canine agility training course.
- Installed a fenced-in potty pen and acquired eight dog crates.
- Built a 12’ x 16’ wood building to house the dogs.