Welcome to EENP's volunteer site! Your help changes lives -- whether the lives of our inmate-trainers as they learn to shape our pups into highly-skilled assistance dogs, or the lives of our clients, who have the support of canine partners to assist them in their daily lives. You might even find that the experience of volunteering changes your own life...

Classes and Trainings

Trainings for volunteer activities, including volunteer orientation, vacation home training, and Puppy Parent orientation.
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Canine Care & Safety Training 2 9/28/2017 11/16/2017
Volunteer Information Session 2 9/28/2017 11/16/2017

CT/Grad: Client Training Seminar Activities

Volunteer opportunities related to Client Training seminars.
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Evaluation Helpers - Adult/Child team 2 11/2/2017 11/3/2017
Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog 2 11/2/2017 11/3/2017
Food - Provide lunch for clients and staff 6 10/23/2017 11/3/2017
Food - Provide snacks for training room 1 10/23/2017 10/23/2017
Solo "spies" 1 11/2/2017 11/2/2017

CT/Grad: Graduation Activities

Volunteer opportunities related to dog team graduation and associated events.
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Graduation - Clean Up 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation - Flowers for ceremony 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation - Food Table 2 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation - Information table 2 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation - Parking and Outside Entrance 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation - Setup 2 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation Lunch - Food Pick Up and Set Up 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation Lunch - Host/ess 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation Lunch - Lunch Clean up 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017
Graduation Lunch - Lunch Setup 1 11/4/2017 11/4/2017

Events: PR and Fundraising Events

Staffing information booth at fairs and festivals.
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Festifall (Chapel Hill) - booth shifts 3 10/1/2017 10/1/2017
Festifall (Chapel Hill) - break down booth 1 10/1/2017 10/1/2017
Festifall (Chapel Hill) - setup booth 1 10/1/2017 10/1/2017

Office/Administrative/Technical Activities

Volunteer opportunities helping with administrative, management, and technical tasks. Generally these are on-going shifts or as-needed activities (such as stuffing envelopes for a mailing).
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Office Assistant 1
Video! 1
Volunteer Coordinator 1
Website Design & Maintenance 1

Program/Dog Training Activities

Activities related to program work -- includes dog training, training assistants, training room assistants, novel dog volunteers, scent sample volunteers, etc. These volunteer opportunities are typically on-going and not event-related.
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Scent Samples 1
Work Release Transport/Supervisor commitment 1

Program/Dog Transport

Volunteer activities to transport dogs, visiting lecturers, etc. 

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Dog Transport 1

Mission Statement

Eyes Ears Nose and Paws partners people with dogs to improve lives.

We collaborate with the correctional system to train assistance dogs that we partner with people who have disabilities. Our inmate-trainers develop interpersonal, leadership, and job skills while giving back to the community despite their incarceration; and our clients receive life-changing support for their disabilities in the form of a highly-trained canine partner.

Our Service Dogs assist people with mobility impairments.  These dogs assist with a wide variety of daily tasks, including retrieving items, opening doors, operating buttons and switches, and helping prevent and recover from falls. Our Medical Alert Dogs are trained to detect and alert to changes in medical conditions such as diabetes; retrieve medical kits; and get help in an emergency.