Earlier in 2018, Eric had reached out to a fellow volunteer at the Front Street animal shelter to attend CDCR's annual 'Take your child to work day'. This volunteer, a lady by the name of Barbara Vik helps out at the County of Sacramento's Youth Detention facility as part of a program to help Juvenal offenders to learn compassion as well as skills where they can hopefully move in a direction that will be more productive to their long term success in society.
Barbara was more than happy to come and talk to son's and daughters of CDCR staff about programs involving animals and offenders in detention environments. She did a wonderful job and even brought a four legged furry friend with her.
A few months later, Barbara reached out to Eric and asked if he would be interested in bringing a dog in to be part of a 'Guest Speaker' series at the counties youth detention facility and talk about how volunteering has impacted his life.
Eric was only happy to oblige and he and Charlie Ventured into the youth detention facility and spoke to 8 young ladies about his involvement with Chako and other shelter/rescue operations.
Safe travels all!
Carol and Eric Anderson
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