Community Heroes Grantee Spotlight: Crisis Response Canines

Crisis Response Canines is one of three 2025 Community Heroes Grant recipients. Thanks to the generous women of Impact100 South Jersey, Crisis Response Canines is making an even bigger impact — helping communities and first responders heal after crisis and trauma.

Here’s how our grant is changing lives:

🚐 Deployment & Travel Support: NJ teams are now able to travel to crisis sites like Kerry County, TX and Minneapolis, MN, bringing calm and comfort where it’s needed most.
🎓 Trauma-Informed Training: Handlers are gaining deeper skills in emotional regulation, psychological first aid, and crisis-sensitive communication — making every deployment more impactful.
🏫 Supporting NJ Schools: By integrating canine-assisted wellbeing into school reentry and staff recovery programs, we’re helping students and educators rebuild strength and connection.
📊 Transparency & Impact: Every step is measured, ensuring accountability and real results.

🌟 What’s Next:

Crisis Canines is preparing for even more — expanding trauma-informed training, growing school partnerships, increasing post-incident response for first responders, and developing faster regional rapid-response teams.

🚀 Looking Ahead:

Crisis Canines is expanding its trauma-informed readiness, deepening school partnerships, increasing community recovery deployments, and building rapid-response capacity to mobilize swiftly in times of crisis.

Together, Impact100 South Jersey and Crisis Canines demonstrate the power of strategic philanthropy — translating compassion into measurable, life-changing outcomes.

Together, we’re proving that compassion — especially when it comes on four paws — has the power to heal hearts and communities. 💙🐾