Spring 2002 Featured Members

In this news letter we are featuring two of our members. Angie Tan CBC, the first CBC from Singapore. The full magazine article is linked below in .pdf format. Tania Jackson CBC, has received approval from her state to start an inmates training program. Read about her below. If you would like to be included in this area, or know of another member who should, please submit information to the newsletter editor.
Angie Tan, CBC The full story: Angie Tan
Local Seeing Eye Foundation Tania Jackson with K9 Therapy and Training, LLC recently watched a true story on the Lifetime Channel about a nun who started training dogs in prisons for the handicapped in Washington State. As Tania's interest is working with service dogs, she set out to find out if there were any on going projects in Georgia and if not, to start one. She started out by first tracking down Sister Pauline Quinn from the film and between the two of them managed to set up a meeting between the Department and Corrections together with a local seeing eye foundation.	Tania Jackson, CBC
On March 18, 2002, the Department of Corrections broke ground for the building of 8 kennels. These kennels will be built at the Woman's Correctional facility just south of Downtown Atlanta. The foundation hope to place 6 puppies for 6 prisoners to begin training by the middle of this year. These dogs will be trained until they are approximately 14 months old, when they are then sent to the training facility in Florida to begin their formal training as seeing-eye dogs.