Touching Lives, Warming Hearts

Through Human & Animal Interactions

About Us

KPETS – Keystone Pet Enhanced Therapy Services volunteer teams promote well-being by sharing the power of human-animal interactions.

Our more than 300 volunteer teams provide over 10,000 hours of visitation each year with over 6,000 visits at no cost to individuals. We serve those in our communities at hundreds of facilities and agencies in South Central PA.

KPETS teams…

Uplift cancer patients while in the hospital or during their chemo treatments

Motivate adults and children in physical, occupational, speech and cognitive therapy sessions

Support teachers who have reluctant learners and struggling readers

Encourage children to attend a library program so they can read to a companion animal

Brighten the day for seniors in retirement communities

Stimulate conversation with dementia and stroke patients

Comfort children, teens and adults before and after counseling sessions at sexual assault and abuse centers

Assist therapists working with children with autism, selective mutism or other special needs.

Ease the stress of patients, families and staff at healthcare and hospice facilities

The possibilities are endless. The human/animal interaction opens doors, hearts and minds like no human therapist can.

Lives Touched and Hearts Warmed by KPETS! THANK YOU Triode Media Group for creating this video!