Teams are expected to visit at least twice a month to maintain active membership. Teams that have a 60-day lapse are not considered active members, and can retest at the owners expense, to become an active member.
The WHN only offers opportunities for Volunteer Visiting Teams. This means all of our teams are visiting strictly within the confines of voluntary work with their dogs. We do not offer a track for professional healthcare/human services providers who wish to use their dogs in their daily work. If you are interested in this aspect of the work, please reach out to Animal Assisted Intervention International. These are human-dog teams who perform volunteer visitations focused on activities that are casual and leisure-based. They may visit individuals or groups of people in a variety of our pre-approved community locations. A volunteer visiting team may be requested to work directly with a paid licensed healthcare/social service provider (Animal Assisted Therapy or AAT), or educational provider (Animal Assisted Education or AAE) within their scope of practice, when the professional does not have a dog of their own in the work setting. If the licensed professional is not present, it is a visiting session with animal assisted activities. WHN visiting teams participate in a screening, an entry level WHN course, a formal evaluation, and then if everything is successfully completed, they are registered as WHN Visiting Team. The team re-evaluates and re-registers every two years. |