Youth Education

Humane Education & Training

Stay Safe Bite Prevention Program

Community education programs focus on building a strong and safe bond between animals and people within our community. Bite safety programs are an important function for animal shelters.  Children have a natural affinity for animals. Learning to approach an unfamiliar animal, and learning to ask prior to petting an animal, can greatly reduce bites which are traumatic to the child as well as animals being surrendered to a shelter because of a negative incident with a child. Two certified bite prevention programs form the structure of the ‘Stay Safe’ program.

Children’s Education Programs will be free for all Lake County Residents. Outside of Lake County, a $35.00 fee will be required.

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Be A Tree Program

Our goal is the education of safe human-canine interactions to prevent dog bites both in the home as well as with unfamiliar pets. The ‘Be a Tree’ program is a dog bite prevention program for Pre-Kindergarten through second-grade children. This program focuses on fun and interactive activities to teach children how to read dog body language to act safely around both their own dog and strange dogs. Program is 1-hour long.

Children’s Education Programs are free for all Lake County Residents. Outside of Lake County, a $35.00 fee will be required.

Ready to schedule? Download and fill out the form and contact us below.

Download the Be A Tree Form
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Reach & Teach Humane Education Program

The ‘Reach & Teach’ Humane Education Program is a fun and engaging way to teach third-grade through seventh-grade students the positive and powerful message of what it really means to be a responsible pet owner.

The program includes eight units designed to be presented in 45 to 60-minute sessions. Reach & Teach covers being a responsible pet owner, how to stop pet overpopulation, how to have a healthy and safe pet, providing for a pet their whole life, animal advocacy, careers working with animals.  The class utilizes lecture, games, and activities. Each unit focuses on the development of different character traits and includes a student “I Can” statements. Program is 1.5 hours long.

Children’s Education Programs are free for all Lake County Residents. Outside of Lake County, a $35.00 fee will be required.

Ready to schedule? Download and fill out the form and contact us below.

Download the Reach and Teach Form
Call LHS, Extension 116
Email LHS

Scout Patch Program

The Scout Patch Program is available for both girl and boy scouts.  Since pet safety is imperative for children, the patch program incorporates the information learned during the ‘Stay Safe’ bite prevention program and the ‘Reach & Teach’ program as well as at home assignments which encourage safe interactions with pets and other pet-centric activities. A completed report card submitted back to LHS is required to receive the patch.

Activities include:
Walk family pet
Feed family pet
Groom family pet
Read to a pet
Art Project with an animal as the theme
DIY shelter enrichment project (enrichment items list and instructions provided)
Read a book about a pet (book list included)

The LHS Scout Patch Program is $5 per scout.

Ready to schedule? Download and fill out the form and contact us below.

Download the Scout Patch Program Form
Give Us a Call, Extension 116
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