Eyes Ears Nose and Paws


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...

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Volunteer Interest Areas

1 - Classes and Trainings

Trainings for volunteer activities, including volunteer orientation and Canine Care & Safety.

Activity Shifts Start End
Canine Care & Safety Training 9 3/26/2025 11/19/2025
Volunteer Information Session 9 3/26/2025 11/19/2025

2 - Events: Client Training Seminar Activities

Volunteer opportunities related to Client Training seminars.

Activity Shifts Start End
Evaluation Helpers - Adult/Child team - Durham Southpoint Mall 1 2/27/2025 2/27/2025
Evaluation Helpers - Adult/Child team - Hillsborough Pizza Hut 1 2/28/2025 2/28/2025
Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - Durham Southpoint Mall 1 2/27/2025 2/27/2025
Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - Hillsborough Pizza Hut 1 2/28/2025 2/28/2025
Food - Provide snacks and cold drinks for training 3 2/14/2025 10/17/2025
Lunch for clients and staff 2 2/17/2025 2/28/2025
Novel Dog - EENP Office 0 2/17/2025 2/20/2025
Novel Dog - Hillsborough Home Depot 0 2/21/2025 2/21/2025
Solo "spies" 3 2/27/2025 10/30/2025
Training Room and Office Deep Clean 3 2/13/2025 10/16/2025
Welcome Dinner Helper 1 2/17/2025 2/17/2025

3 - Prog: ABEL

Activity Shifts Start End
ABEL Training Assistant 0 2/13/2025 5/27/2025

3 - Prog: Dog Care and Training Support

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.

Activity Shifts Start End
Evaluation Helpers - Novel Dog - EENP Office (Hillsborough) 0 2/14/2025 2/14/2025
Pet Dog Assessment 14 3/7/2025 6/6/2025
Puppy Wrangler and Training Room Helper 16 2/25/2025 4/17/2025
Vet Clinic Assistant - TIME TBD 6 2/26/2025 6/4/2025

3 - Prog: Dog Transport

Activity Shifts Start End
Hillsborough/Chapel Hill - Transport pups from daycare to YPTs PFL 0 2/13/2025 3/6/2025

3 - Prog: Puppy Caregiver

Pup assignments will be posted here. Please sign up if you are available!

Activity Shifts Start End
02/06/25-02/16/25 Morgan 0 2/6/2025 2/16/2025
02/11/25-02/18/25 Norm 0 2/11/2025 2/18/2025
02/18/25-02/20/25 Elaine 0 2/18/2025 2/20/2025
02/20/25-02/23/25 Noah 0 2/20/2025 2/23/2025
03/01/25-03/02/25 Haywood 0 3/1/2025 3/2/2025
03/20/25-03/24/25 Tova 0 3/20/2025 3/24/2025
03/27/25-04/08/25 Ori 0 3/27/2025 4/8/2025
05/04/25-05/14/25 Muna 1 5/4/2025 5/14/2025

4 - 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).

Activity Shifts Start End
Contact Vets for Graduate Teams (Remote) 2 5/12/2025 9/8/2025
Cook Bland Diet 11 2/24/2025 12/29/2025
Make Special Treats for Pups 11 2/24/2025 12/29/2025
Provide Carrots and Celery for Training 46 2/17/2025 12/29/2025

4 - Other Activities

Activities that don't fit in other categories

Activity Shifts Start End
Volunteer Appreciation Party! 1 4/6/2025 4/6/2025

8 - INTEREST Signups (Unscheduled)

Sign up for these activities to indicate your interest in helping when needed.

Activity Shifts Start End
Cook Bland Diet 1
Dog Transport 1
Interested in remote volunteer opportunities during COVID-19 response? 1
Scent Samples 1
Video! 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 incarcerated 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 mobility 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.