Project POOCH, Inc.® has successfully paired youths incarcerated at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, Oregon, with homeless shelter dogs since 1993.
Youths (guided by professionals) learn to train the dogs, groom them, and help them get adopted. The dogs leave the program ready to be great pets, while their trainers re-enter the community with new job and personal skills and increased compassion and respect for all life. Both youth and dogs experience unconditional love, often for the first time.
What Drives Us
Project POOCH provides opportunities for youth in corrections to learn responsibility, patience, and compassion for all life by working with shelter dogs.
The Willamette Week Give!Guide is Oregon’s easiest and most interactive path to year-end giving, offering fun incentives and prizes along the way. We are honored to be featured in it again this year as a BIPOC-led (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) organization.
- Every donor will get a custom Mike Bennett x Project POOCH sticker, designed specifically for this Give!Guide partnership.
- Three donors will be randomly be selected to receive a custom Mike Bennett pet portrait (digital).
- Three donors will be randomly selected to receive a custom Mike Bennett pet portrait (wooden cut-out).
