{"id":3291,"date":"2019-06-09T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therapydogsbouldercounty.com\/?page_id=3291"},"modified":"2019-06-09T20:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T20:12:34","slug":"balfour-lavender-farms-senior-living","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/balfour-lavender-farms-senior-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Balfour Lavender Farms Senior Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0Welcome to the Balfour Lavender Farms Senior Living in Louisville<\/span><\/h3>\n

Therapy Dog Program<\/span><\/h3>\n

1800 Plaza Drive, Louisville, CO<\/span><\/p>\n

Balfour\u00a0is a vetted facility<\/a> working closely with Therapy Dogs Boulder County to bring some wonderful dog therapy to residents who greatly appreciate the interaction on a daily basis.\u00a0 The\u00a0Balfour Senior Living Therapy Dog program is a totally volunteer<\/strong> program and operates with team visits\u00a0several days per week.<\/span><\/p>\n

All teams (a team is a handler and dog) are signed up on a regular visiting schedule.\u00a0 The team choices for visit scheduling are:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Once each week, same day\/time<\/span>
\n\u2013 2nd & 4th weeks of the month, same day\/time<\/span>
\n\u2013 1st, 3rd & 5th weeks of the month, same day\/time<\/span><\/p>\n

All teams are required to take a schedule available to them using the above choices.\u00a0 There are no floating schedules or visitations.\u00a0 All teams are part of a group email list so they can communicate absences and emergency coverage.\u00a0 A monthly schedule is created and sent to all teams and administration\u00a0just before the beginning of each new month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Requirements:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0Therapy Dog Registration:\u00a0 All teams must be registered with a therapy dog association.\u00a0 The accepted registration memberships are:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    <\/span>\u2013 Alliance of Therapy Dogs (www.therapydogs.com<\/u><\/a>)<\/span>
    \n\u2013 PetPartners(    www.petpartners.org
    \n<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    If you are not presently registered with any association, there are several tester\/observers for Alliance of Therapy Dogs inside of our Therapy Dogs Boulder County group who can help get you started on that process.\u00a0 Use the \u201ccontact us\u201d selection from the\u00a0main menu and let us know you would like to be tested with your dog.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Are you interested in being a therapy dog team at Balfour Lavender Farms Senior Living?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

    If you would like to make application to be a therapy dog team at this facility in Louisville, please click on the following Facility Application Form<\/a> link which will take you to the Facility application page.\u00a0 If you would like to make application to more than one Facility, please read about their requirements first before selecting them on the application:<\/span><\/p>\n

    DOGS ONLY, please<\/span><\/p>\n

    Facility Application Form<\/a><\/h2>\n

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    \u00a0 \u00a0Welcome to the Balfour Lavender Farms Senior Living in Louisville Therapy Dog Program 1800 Plaza Drive, Louisville, CO Balfour\u00a0is a vetted facility working closely with Therapy Dogs Boulder County to bring some wonderful dog therapy to residents who greatly …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3291\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholles.com\/therapydogsbouldercounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}