Every year HOPE Animal Assisted Crisis Response holds their annual meeting in a different location. The nonprofit therapy dog organization has five regions, and each year one of them gets to choose the city. This year the decision fell to the Southeast Region. They chose Charleston.
When the news broke that nine people had been gunned down in the basement of the Emanuel AME Church, HOPE handlers Cindy Becker and Julie Scott were able to immediately mobilize their certified therapy dogs, Porsha and George, quickly bringing comfort to a city struck by an unimaginable tragedy.
(click here for full story by Erika Mansourian)
