This summer, C.A.R.E.4Paws graduated another 150 young and excited Animal Ambassadors through Paws Up For Pets, a new educational initiative that promotes accountability and compassion for animals and empathy in the community.
Seventy of the children, ages 5 through 12, attended a YMCA summer camp at Lompoc’s La Honda Elementary. The other half were children enrolled in summer camps at the United Boys & Girls Clubs’ Westside and Goleta units. C.A.R.E.4Paws has been working with these groups of kids since middle of June.
A collaboration between C.A.R.E.4Paws and United Boys & Girls Clubs, Paws Up For Pets focuses mainly on children age K-8 enrolled in afterschool programs. Altogether, 300 children have earned the Animal Ambassador Badge, or “Badge 1,” since the program launch in October 2016.