Therapy Dog Connect

11/02/2026

Meet Julie & Brayleigh, our Handler Spotlight for November! 🐾✨

Certified since 2018, this incredible team regularly spreads comfort at St. Anthony’s North Hospital and the Northglenn Police Department. With Julie’s background as a psychotherapist, Brayleigh was a natural fit for therapy work—and her doggy intuition is truly amazing.

During one hospital visit, Brayleigh insistently stopped at a room door, refusing to leave until a patient came over in his wheelchair. It turned out the patient had diabetes—a condition close to Brayleigh's home life—and she sensed he needed comfort before anyone else did! ❤️

Read the full story and learn more about their inspiring journey together:
👉 https://therapydogconnect.com/volunteers/julie-brayleigh

10/21/2026

We love being a part of the CommonSpirit St. Anthony North Hospital Community!

Our Paws for Patients therapy dogs are helping bring warmth and comfort to patients and caregivers throughout the hospital.

Whether encouraging patients as they work toward rehabilitation goals, offering companionship during a difficult day, or giving a caregiver a moment to pause and smile, these special visitors make a difference in ways that go beyond medicine.

With 24 therapy dog teams serving our hospital, we’re proud to support a program that puts compassion at the heart of care. Meet the therapy dogs and volunteers and learn how they are making a difference. https://ow.ly/fvwX50ZZNEL

10/20/2026

It never ceases to amaze us how intuitively dogs connect with people. Patient feedback surveys give us a powerful look into how our program is truly performing through the eyes of those we serve. Reading these firsthand accounts of how a visit brightened a hospital stay reminds us of the real impact happening every day. Thank you to our incredible community and dedicated handlers for making these moments possible! 🐾💚

10/12/2026

📣🐾 Big News! We are thrilled to announce an official design partner collaboration between Therapy Dog Connect and Caring K9s Inc!

As we work to improve how therapy dog organizations coordinate and support their handlers, Caring K9s is partnering with us to pilot and help shape our platform's upcoming organization-level features. We’re excited to work hand-in-hand with the team at Caring K9s to build better tools for the therapy dog community. Stay tuned for updates on our progress!

10/01/2026

Meet Bruce & Hazel! 🐾

Our Volunteer Handler Spotlight this time features a team that clearly coordinated their outfits. (Yes, those are matching pink shoes. Yes, it's as great as it looks.) 💗

Bruce and Hazel volunteer their time to bring comfort and joy to patients, families, and hospital staff. Visits like theirs make a real difference, and we're so grateful for handlers like them.

Checkout their story here: https://therapydogconnect.com/volunteers/bruce-hazel

09/29/2026

09/01/2026

Meet Diane & Toby — our Handler Spotlight for the month!

Diane shared something that stuck with us: "When he is next to someone and they have tears in their eyes, you can see the stress start to leave their face."

That's what these visits are all about. Grateful for volunteer teams like Diane and Toby who show up and make a real difference for patients.

Read the full spotlight here:

"When he is next to someone and they have tears in their eyes, you can see the stress start to leave their face." — Diane and Toby, Therapy Dog Connect volunteers.

08/26/2026

🐶 It's International Dog Day! 🐶

Every dog deserves some love today — big ones, small ones, mutts, mixes, purebreds, the ones who fetch and the ones who'd rather nap. Whether yours is a couch companion or a certified therapy dog making hospital rounds, they all make our lives better.

Drop a photo of your dog in the comments — we want to see them all! 🐾

08/19/2026

New feature alert 🐾 Certifications just got a whole lot easier.

Handlers can now upload their therapy dog certs right from the app — scan it, upload a file, or type it in manually. Hospitals verify it on their end, and it's on record. No more paper copies floating around, no more "wait, did that expire?"

And when a cert IS about to expire, the handler gets a heads up automatically — before it becomes a problem.

Rocco's already got his Alliance of Therapy Dogs cert on file. Swipe through to see how easy it was ➡️