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Harding University grad students are teaming up with therapy puppies to help bring hope and healing to Arkansas' youth through innovative mental health care, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
The therapy puppies are part of the university's mental health program for youth, and the goal is to get them into the homes of at-risk youth so they can be trained as therapy puppies and then put to use in the program's classrooms and after-school programs.
"I think it's a really cool idea," one of the grad students tells the Democrat-Gazette.
"I think it's going to be really cool for the kids."
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