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15th January 2021

Could you be a ‘Fab Foster’….?

Read our story about Ollie and his foster family. We are currently looking for ‘Fab Fosters’ in West Sussex. If you want to find out more visit the Fostering page our website.

- Increase in patience, impulse control, emotional regulation
- Improved ability to display affect, decrease in emotional numbness
- Improved sleep
- Decreased depression, increase in positive sense of purpose
- Decrease in startle responses
- Reduce anxiety & lower blood pressure
- Decrease in pain medications
- Increased sense of belonging/acceptance
- Lowered stress levels, increased sense of calm

From Service Dog Training Program for Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress in Service Members - Yount, Olmert, Lee published: US Army Medical Department Journal 2012

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Could you be a ‘Fab Foster’….?

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