Caring Canines Visiting Therapy Dogs, Inc.

Where We Go



Caring Canines serves over 60 facilities each month in the greater-Boston area. We visit extensively within the route 95 corridor and from the northern cities of Reading and Wakefield, west to Sudbury and Natick, and south as far as Needham and Dorchester. It continues to be our pleasure to serve elderly residents in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, children in hospitals and school special-education classrooms, adolescents with behavioral challenges, and individuals with disabilities at day habilitation and residential programs.

The following is a list of the many facilities we serve:




Assisted-Living Facilities

Avery Crossings, Needham
Concord Park, Concord
Dana Home, Lexington

Country Club Heights, Woburn

The Falls at Cordingly Dam, Newton
Golden Living Center, Chestnut Hill
Heathstone, Woburn
Leland Home, Waltham
Longwood Place, Reading 
Neville Place, Cambridge
New Horizons, Woburn
Orchard Hill, Sudbury
Springhouse, Jamaica Plain
Somerville House, Somerville
Sunrise of Burlington, Burlington
Youville Place, Lexington
Youville House, Cambridge
Waltham Crossings, Waltham

Nursing Centers

Pine Knoll, Lexington

Sancta Maria, Cambridge

Waban Health and ReHab, Waban

Hospitals 

Arbor-HRI Hospital, Brookline
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston
Caritas Carney Hospital, Dorchester
Children's Hospital, Boston
Healthsouth New England Rehabilitation Hospital, Woburn
Leonard Morse Hospital, Adult Psychiatic Unit, Natick
Leonard Morse Hospital, Child Development Unit, Natick
Leonard Morse Hospital, Geriatric Unit, Natick
Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston
Spaulding Child and Adolescent Center, Boston

Winchester Hospital, Winchester

Adult Day Health Programs

Cooperative Elder Services, Arlington
Cooperative Elder Services, Burlington

Cooperative Elder Services, Concord

Cooperative Elder Services, Lexington

Children and Adolescents

The Cambridge Program, Cambridge
The Compass School, Jamaica Plain
Community Interventions Program, Arlington
Dallin School, Arlington
Devotion School, Brookline

Germaine Lawrence, Arlington

The Ivy School, Brookline

Lincoln School, Brookline

North Bridge, Newton
Runkle School, Brookline
The Second Step, Newton
Thumbprints at Arlington High School, Arlington
Westwood Lodge, Westwood

Day Habilitation Programs and Residences

Greater Waltham Association for Retarded Citizens, Waltham

Specialized Programs

Cambridge Cares About AIDS Residence, Cambridge
Sawtelle Family Hospice, Reading

 

Refer to our current schedule of visits for dates and times.



Requesting visits

The Caring Canines program is at full capacity and we are unable to expand to accommodate additional requests. Please check the Links page for other area programs that might be able to assist you. We thank you for your interest in having us visit and regret that we are unable to serve your facility at this time.