After 9 years, Selma Unified's first therapy dog is retiring

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SELMA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After 9 years, Selma Unified's first-ever therapy canine is retiring.

The schoolhouse district's therapy dog, Jeter, has been with Selma Unified since 2016. Jeter is simply a cockapoo that has been a comforting beingness for countless students.

District officials accidental that Jeter has provided affectional enactment and helped trim the stigma associated with seeking intelligence wellness services.

The affable cockapoo joined Selma Unified arsenic the district's inaugural therapy dog, which launched a programme that has grown to assistance the district's enactment for pupil wellness.

Jeter is simply a certified therapy canine who has been trained successful animal-assisted psychotherapy. He would calm anxious students, providing a harmless abstraction for those who needed to speech and offering much-needed comfortableness during a clip of crisis.

District officials accidental the Selma Unified Therapy Dog Program was created to enactment the intelligence and affectional well-being of students and families portion reducing the stigma of seeking help.

Jeter, territory officials say, played a cardinal relation successful achieving that mission.

His gentle beingness has helped students unfastened up astir their feelings, supported them done challenges, and made it easier to petition intelligence wellness support. For galore students, asking for Jeter became the archetypal measurement toward accessing the assistance they needed.

Jeter's status marks the "end of an era", but the programme volition proceed its work. The district's 2nd therapy dog, Scout, volition instrumentality implicit arsenic the pb therapy dog.