• Delta Society Human-Animal Health Connection Backgrounder - Delta Society® is an international, non-profit, human service organization with a very unique mission.

• Animals as Healers - Hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers are sometimes places that are cold, frightening and lonely for their residents and patients.

• Animals as Guides and Companions - Delta Society can demonstrate that animals have the capabilities to assist their owners in exceptional ways, including acting as ears for those who cannot hear, eyes for those who cannot see, and arms and legs for those who have little or no use of their own.

• Educating People about Animals - The first point of contact with Delta Society, for most people, is through Delta's Health Benefits of Animals activities.

• Over Two Decades of Service and Therapy - Professionals and academics from the veterinary and human health fields who strongly believed that animals have the power to heal founded Delta Society in 1977 in Portland, Oregon.