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Our Mission: Pet Partners' mission is to improve human health and well-being through the human-animal bond. About us: Pet Partners is the national leader in demonstrating and promoting the health and wellness benefits of animal-assisted therapy, activities, and education. Since the organization’s inception in 1977, the science proving these benefits has become indisputable. With more than 10,000 registered teams making more than 3 million visits annually, Pet Partners serves as the nation’s most diverse and respected nonprofit registering handlers of multiple species as volunteer teams. Pet Partners teams visit with patients in recovery, people with intellectual disabilities, seniors living with Alzheimer’s, students, veterans with PTSD, people who have experienced crisis events, and those approaching end of life, with the goal of improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond. With the release of its Standards of Practice for Animal-Assisted Interventions and international expansion, Pet Partners is globally recognized as the industry gold standard. For more information on Pet Partners, visit www.petpartners.org.

Canine Assistants is a national nonprofit service dog school based out of Milton, GA.

For nearly 50 years, Literacy Action has been a grassroots driver of free adult learning services, providing various levels of educational instruction to advance adults towards employment, citizenship, better wages post-secondary education, and contribution toward their children’s success in school. Founded in 1968 by volunteers at the Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Atlanta, Literacy Action is now the largest nonprofit provider of free adult basic education in Georgia, with a staff of 26 and classes in two core sites as well as several community-based locations around the metro-Atlanta area including schools, libraries, and housing authorities. Literacy Action employs teams of professional adult-education teachers and volunteers to provide a full continuum of courses needed by low-income, undereducated adults.