Lions club presentation to promote LPCCI and CCI.

Help with presentation to the Lions Club

Feb 25 is "KVIE Sid the Science Kid Day" at the Museum.

We will be sharing a booth with the Lions and Masons who will be providing child ID's. This will be a great event to promote CCI and puppy raising and help out the local Lions also. Please consider volunteering for any amount of time you can spare. Thanks.

Help the Lions at their booth to promote CCI and LPCCI and explain what CCI does.

The Lions will be holding their District Cabinet meeting and there will be a forum held lasting about an hour during the meeting. This forum will be about LPCCI and we will have a puppy raiser and a graduate there and we would like to get a breeder/caretaker to attend also to help answer any questions that mgiht be asked about different aspects of the CCI program. The cabinet meeting is 4 hours, but we are looking for a volunteer for sometime in the morning.

LPCCI forum to help educate the Lions members in attendance about CCI. We are looking for a breeder/caretaker to help answer questions as needed.

The Modesto 500 Lions Club is a big supporter of LPCCI and will be having their annual Crab Feed and would like to get some puppy raisers or graduates to come down and help sell raffle tickets and promote CCI.

The CA DMV central office in Sacramento has a lecture series called Disabilities - Possiblities. The lecture series is presented with the idea that disability is a part of every person and every family’s life at some time and therefore everyone needs to learn about disability. They want to provide information about disabilities and the resources available to help people live their best quality of life with the disability.

The demo/presentation will be in a conference room over a lunch period and will last officialy for 50 minutes, but answering questions may go a little longer. This sounds like a great opportunity to get the word out about CCI to a lot of people as they will invite everyone in the whole building (population of 3200) to come out to the demo. They have also asked to video tape the presentation so it can be shown to employees over the internal website and throughout all of the field offices in the entire state for employee training. If interested in participating and for more info, check out the volunteer page for this demo.

The date is fixed and the time is approximate. The location is coming.

They have some specific ideas on what they would like us to cover as this is going to be used state wide in their offices. One question they have asked that we can really not answer, but we can talk about is how to tell if a dog is an assistance dog, as they are constantly having this question asked by the various offices. We will also briefly cover puppy raising and there is the possiblity we can get some potential puppy raisers from this demo, but it is not the main point to be covered.

They woud like us to have our dogs (we really need a service dog) work for us and demonstrate what our dogs can do for someone. We will also cover how our dogs are used and the different dogs offered by CCI and the different tasks they are trained for. We should also cover Facility dogs. A usual presentation, but one we need to have somewhat scripted so we can cover everything they need.

If you are interested in volunteering and/or have ideas on the presentation, please contact me at wwstrand@mac.com