Webinar:
PAWS for Assistance: A Guide to Psychiatric Service Animals 

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Many people with mental health disabilities find having a service or emotional support animal improves their daily lives, their mental health and wellness. Learn the difference between these assistance animals and your rights regarding public access and reasonable accommodations.

*This training is presented from a peer perspective by people who have lived experience with mental disabilities.*

Live Caption and ASL Interpreter Available

About the webinar:

In this webinar, we will:

• Identify the differences between service animals and emotional support animals.
• Review the laws that protect our rights to have assistance animals, specifically regarding public access and reasonable accommodations.
• Discover how service and emotional support animals promote recovery and wellness for people with mental health disabilities.
• Explore hypothetical scenarios to improve our understanding about our rights and discover the benefits of having assistance animals for our mental health and wellbeing.

Speakers:

Debi Davis is a person with lived experience and longtime mental health advocate.  Ms. Davis volunteered as a mental health patients’ rights advocate for 10 years and founded a client self-advocacy group called WE C.A.N. (Client Advocacy Now). For the last 14 years, Ms. Davis has worked in the Peer Self-Advocacy program at Disability Rights California facilitating self-advocacy groups in crisis residential facilities and in-patient psychiatric units.