Mobility Assistance Service Animals | Helping Hands - Monkey Helpers
541 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02134
Eligibility
People living with a spinal injury and other mobility limiting conditions, veterans.
Ineligible if you have: significant psychiatric or emotional impairments; 24-hour ventilator dependency; blindness/deafness; heart conditions or seizures.
Hours
Mon-Fri 9:00AM-5:00PM
617-787-4419
Voice·
Main Phone
Application process
Submit an inquiry online. The process takes three to six months. It is a mutual commitment between applicants and Helping Hands to get to know and understand each other very well. To explore the possibilities—and the challenges—of living with a monkey helper. The application process is deliberately designed to give adequate time for this exploration. Applicants who complete the entire process may be matched with a carefully selected monkey helper.
Fees
No fees
Service area
Nationwide
Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.
Helping Hands raises and trains monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.
Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled, and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.
Last assured
03/18/2022
What's Here
Providing organization
Helping Hands Monkey Helpers
Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled is a national nonprofit serving quadriplegic and other people with severe spinal cord injuries or mobility-impairments by providing highly trained monkeys to assist with daily activities.
Helping Hands raises and trains monkeys to act as live-in companions who, over the course of 20-30 years, will provide the gifts of independence, companionship, dignity and hope to the people they help.
Helping Hands also educates thousands of young people annually through the Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program (SCIPP). SCIPP teaches preventive measures for safety awareness, heightens sensitivity to the challenges of being disabled, and promotes understanding of the human-animal bond.