Upper Marlboro, MD
The wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center face huge physical and emotional challenges. Many feel isolated and frustrated by an inability to serve. The Washington Humane Society has an animal-assisted therapy program to help, and C&S has contributed to it. Soldiers in the program work with the shelter dogs, making the dogs more adoptable and giving the soldiers a sense of purpose, as well as a vocational skill they can take back to their units, homes, and communities.