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What is Scotty’s House?

Scotty’s House is a non-profit Child Advocacy Center that serves the seven counties in the Brazos Valley. Their team works to provide comfort and justice to victims of child abuse through professional assessment, counseling, and education using a compassionate and collaborative approach.

What is Paws for Hope?

Paws for Hope is the facility dog program recently launched at Scotty’s House to enhance and better promote the mission of Scotty’s House.

What is Paws for Hope’s purpose?

Paws for Hope was created to enhance the mission of the Scotty’s House Child Advocacy Center. The program will do so by providing quiet companionship to children during forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy sessions, and legal proceedings. This program will allow children to participate more fully in these activities. 

What is a facility dog?

A facility dog is a graduate from an assistance dog organization that is a member of Assistance Dogs International, a non-profit organization that establishes and promotes the standards of excellence in all areas of assistance dog acquisition, training, and partnership. 

Who is Sawyer?

Sawyer, the Scotty’s House facility dog, was trained by Canine Companions for Independence and is the first dog to be a part of the Paws for Hope program. 

How will Scotty’s House utilize Sawyer?

Sawyer’s main priorities will be to provide accompaniment to children (birth to 17 years old as well as developmentally-delayed adults) during forensic interviews, medical exams, therapy sessions, and legal proceedings. Sawyer’s presence in the courtroom during special legal proceedings will be at the judge’s discretion. 

Is Sawyer classified as a service or therapy dog?

No, Sawyer is neither a service dog nor a therapy dog. He is a facility dog. 

What is Canine Companions for Independence?

A non-profit organization, established in 1975, who breeds, trains, and provides highly trained assistance dogs free of charge to organizations and people with disabilities.

Where can I find more information on Scotty’s House?

Visit the Scotty’s House website at ScottysHouse.org to learn more or sign up on our website to become a volunteer! 

Where can I find more information on Paws for Hope and Sawyer?

Visit the Paws for Hope website at PawsForHope.net to learn more about the program and Sawyer.

Where can I find more information on Canine Companions for Independence?

Visit the Canine Companions for Independence website at CCI.org to learn more about the assistance dog program.  

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Medical Volunteers

Onsite Medical Volunteers

Onsite Medical Volunteers assist our forensic medical staff during onsite forensic medical exams. While ideal Medical Volunteer applicants are nurses, nursing students, medical students, retired medical staff, or individuals with a medical background, medical experience is not required.

Medical Volunteers sign up for shifts only when a medical is scheduled. Shifts can vary between one to three hours, depending on the situation. Exams are usually scheduled during the week (Monday through Friday) between 9:00am and 5:00pm, however some exams are scheduled after hours and on weekends.

All individuals interested in serving as an Onsite Medical Volunteer must attend New Volunteer Orientation.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.

Medical Accompaniment Volunteers (MAV)

Medical Accompaniment Volunteers respond to the Baylor Scott & White Emergency Department in College Station to provide informational and support services to child clients who receive forensic medical exams at the hospital. While ideal MAV applicants are nurses, nursing students, medical students, retired medical staff, or individuals with a medical background, medical experience is not required. MAVs assist Baylor Scott & White staff to help make the forensic exam process less stressful for child clients and their families.

All individuals interested in participating in the MAV program must attend New Volunteer Orientation and must also complete MAV training.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.
MAV training is offered twice a year, in the spring and fall.

Scotty’s House Ambassadors

Scotty’s House Ambassadors provide a variety of support for our agency including: staffing our agency information booth at health fairs, assisting with Child Abuse Prevention Month activities during April, helping with our two annual fundraisers in spring and fall, decorating for seasons/holidays, assisting with our annual Star Program at Christmas, and providing support at other activities involving the agency.

Ambassadors sign up for events and activities throughout the year. Events can be during the week, after hours, and on weekends, depending on the specific activity.

All individuals interested in serving as an Ambassador must attend New Volunteer Orientation.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.

Family Care Volunteer

When children are brought to Scotty’s House to receive a forensic interview and/or a forensic medical exam, Family Care volunteers (FCs) welcome these child clients and their non-offending family members to our center. FCs appropriately interact with families to provide comfort and support while maintaining client confidentiality. FCs provide supervision for clients of Scotty’s House in a fun, child-friendly setting. FCs also provide support for our counseling program by monitoring our counseling waiting area and assisting our therapists with clients. FC volunteer shifts are Monday through Friday, between the hours of 9:00am and 5:00pm, and are available in one-hour increments. The primary goal of the FC is to help make our child clients feel welcome and comfortable while visiting our agency.

All individuals interested in participating in the FC program must attend New Volunteer Orientation and must also complete Family Care training.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.
FC training is offered twice a year, in the spring and fall.

Virtual Volunteers

Virtual Volunteers

Virtual Volunteers provide technical assistance for Scotty’s House by completing tasks via the internet through a home or work computer. Virtual Volunteer opportunities include: translating documents from English to Spanish, designing newsletters and brochures, editing and proofreading publications for proposals, designing logos and illustrating documents, posting upcoming events on web-based community calendars, submitting press releases, surveying volunteers via email, as well as other technical assistance and virtual opportunities.

All individuals interested in serving as a Virtual Volunteer must attend New Volunteer Orientation.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.

Direct-Service Virtual Volunteer Program

A Direct-Service Virtual Volunteer is matched with a child client currently in counseling at Scotty’s House and serves as this child’s mentor, buddy, and/or tutor. When a Scotty’s House counselor identifies an additional supportive service for a client that would benefit the client’s therapeutic process, but does not require the immediate direction of the counseling professional, the counselor may request the use of a Direct-Service Virtual Volunteer to provide the supportive services. Supportive services involve teaching a specific skill or leading an activity that will benefit the client(s) in therapy, as well as tutoring a client in school subjects. This does not include discussion of trauma.

All individuals interested in serving as a Direct-Service Virtual Volunteer must attend New Volunteer Orientation.

New Volunteer Orientation is offered three times a year in the spring, summer, and fall.