Meet Willowbrook: The Tiny Therapy Dog With a Giant Mission From a One-Pound Survivor to a Symbol of Strength “...our deputies are seeing so much trauma. Why don’t we have therapy dogs?” That question became the spark for what would grow into LASD’s countywide therapy dog program. Through the Blue ... Read More
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A Tiny Therapy Dog with a Giant Mission: Willowbrook, 2025 First Responder Paws Winner
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“FIRST RESPONDER COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD” LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE May 1, 2025 The first, annual “First Responder Community Impact Award,” hosted by the national behavioral health provider, FHE Health, is spotlighting first responder agencies and departments that are making a positive mental health impact in their ... Read More
2025 Graduate Hope for Healing Winner: The Power of “Feeling Seen and Heard”
Kim Koger doesn’t remember much from her early years in a foster home in South Korea — and the circumstances that brought her there are still hazy. Her birth parents had reportedly abandoned her at a police telephone booth. There was no birth certificate. Those first childhood memories are hard to access and faint ... Read More
2025 Hope for Healing Undergraduate Winner: Recovery and Resilience After a Brain Tumor
She first knew something was wrong in February 2021. “One day, out of nowhere, my right hand suddenly felt paralyzed,” recalled 18-year-old Catalina Artuz, in an interview with FHE Health. She couldn’t “scroll through her phone, open a door, or even hold a fork properly at lunch.” “It was as if there was a ... Read More
Meet the 2025 Winners of the “Hope for Healing Scholarship”!
After eight impressive finalists were announced last week, our selection committee had the difficult task of choosing one undergraduate and one graduate winner of the “2025 Hope for Healing Scholarship.” They are Catalina Artuz (our undergraduate winner) and Kim Koger (our graduate winner). In the coming weeks, you’ll ... Read More
Meet Our 8 Finalists for the Hope for Healing Scholarship!
After a record number of applications — roughly 800 — eight finalists have been selected for our 2025 Hope for Healing Scholarship! Before we introduce you to each of them, here’s some fun trivia about this year’s applicant pool: 281 graduate-level students and 514 undergraduate students applied. Together, they ... Read More
Meet Our 10 Finalists for the 2024 First Responder Paws Award!
Roughly 8,500 people voted for their favorite dog in this year’s contest for the First Responder Paws Therapy Dog Award. Now that the votes have been tallied, we wanted to give you an opportunity to meet the 10 dogs that received the most votes and are now finalists for the 2024 award. ... Read More
Meet Winner of 2024 Community Impact Award!
It’s Thursday morning, and Roz Pichardo has been managing lines of people who are either queuing up for clothes or distributing them. “I had a huge donation of clothes—so many—and because we have a very small space, I had to do a last-minute clothing drive,” Pichardo said, in a phone interview with FHE ... Read More
