What Do
Kids with Disabilities, Prison Inmates, Puppies,
Veterans with PTSD, and Seniors
Have In Common with Kyria?
Kyria Helps Them All!
They Need Your Help Too!
Almost fourteen years ago, on a very snowy Valentine’s Day morning, a puppy (who was almost as big as she was) was placed into a little girls arms. Little did anyone know that this puppy named RILEY would soon bear all of the credit and blame for this girl's future.
Kyria Henry (whose title is now Founder and Deputy Executive Director of paws4peopletm a 501(3)(c)nonprofit charitable foundation) has traveled some amazing miles in those years.
Today Kyria and her team:
- Have a foundation with over 180 volunteers
- Have over 115 Assistance Dogs
- Operate in nine states
- Work closely with the U.S. Military
- Work with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Kyria Needs Help!
There is a long, long story to tell, as to how paws4peopletm came about. And how Kyria began using dogs to help senior citizens when she was 12 to being asked to help students with severe and profound disabilities when she was 14.
As she went away to college, she was asked to establish a dog training program in a federal female prison close by her school. Now her program has spread to five prisons with more on a waiting list!
Just this year - Kyria and her team are establishing the first ever Assistance Dog Training Program for soldiers with PTSD and/or other disabilities inside a Warrior Transition Battalion for the US Army!
How You Can Help
These dogs are extremely expensive. A highly trained dog, who can help and support a veteran suffering from severe case of post traumatic stress disorder takes 18-24 months and costs upwards of $30,000 each!
Will you help?
Kyria understands her role very clearly and also understands how she got here. She said, "No other 22 year-old is lucky enough to have parents who have sacrificed all and transformed their lives for the dreams of their child before they even graduated college."
As of now Kyria has a family made up of dedicated volunteers, all of different professions, united by the simple-yet-complicated effects of what dogs can do. These dogs are trained to help people, but what else do they do? For instance do they help people heal?
Now she needs help helping so many others are that are crying for it. The paw4peopletm program has proven over and over again they CAN make a difference. But making a difference takes funds. Become part of the family now and know the joy of helping others.





