KIDS, WILL LIKELY HAVE TO DO MORE DATA COLLECTION, BEFORE WE COULD SEE CHANGES. SOME FOUR LEGGED HELP TONIGHT FOR SOME LOCAL FIRST RESPONDERS, FRONTLINE WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEM. THERE ARE ESTIMATES THAT 85% OF THEM HAVE EXPERIENCED SYMPTOMS RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS SUCH AS DEPRESSION AND PTSD, AND SUICIDE. ONE LOCAL MEDICAL RESCUE UNIT IS TAKING A PROACTIVE STEP, IN HELPING TO COMFORT OUR EMERGCYEN SERVICES HEROES. >> THIS LITTLE GUY IS JUST 15 WEEKS OLD. >> JUST SOME BASIC OBEDIENCE STUFF. MIKE C: BUT C.J. THE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD POODLE MIX, IS ALREADY BUSY, TRAINING TBEO A THERAPY DOG. >> WEO DTRAINING WITH HIM EVERY DAY, WHETHER IT IS OBEDIENCE, WALKING TO SCHOOLO T PICK UP MY DAUGHTER, INTERACTING WITH KIDS AND OTHER DOGS. IT IS DAILY TRAINIOR FNG HIM AND ME AS HIS HANDLER, BUT ALSO THE FORMAL TRAINING ISNC OE OR TWICE A WEEK. MIKE C: CJ WILL BE A THERAPY DOG TO REDUCE THE ANXIETYND A DEPRESSION MAY ENCOUNTER. THE CONSTANT DONNING OF PERSONAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT, THE CALL VOLUME PUTS A GREAT STRESS ON THEM SO PART OF THE IDEA IS THAT CJ WILL BE HELPING TO TAKE THEIR MIND OFF OF THE CALL THAT THEY WENT ON WHEN THEY GET BACK TO THE STATION AND HAVE SOMETHING TO LOVE AND SOMETHING THAT LOVES THEM UNCONDITIONALLY. MIKE C: CJ IS NAMED AFTER ONE OF THE DOCTORS, THE FIRST MEDICAL DIRECTOR WHO WAS KILLED ON BOARD TWA FLIGHT 800 IN 1996. HONORING HER SERVICE AND MEMORY. IN ADDITION TO FIRST RESPONDERS, CJ WILL BE IN SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS AND RSNUING HOMES, ANYWHERE THAT PEOPLE NEED EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. CJ PROVIDING COMFORT AND LOTS OF LOVE. >> HE WILL BE AN UNOFFICIALLY OFFICIALAN CINE. HE DID RECEIVE A BADGE WHICH WILL BE PRESENTING TO HIM WHEN HE GRADUATES AND BECOMES PART OF THE TEAM. HES I OWNED BY THE COMPANY. HE IS KNOWN AS A WORNGKI DOG FOR THIS AGENCY. MIKE C: HE WILL RECEIVE FORMAL TRAINING FORHE T NEXT BALL TO 18 MONTHS BEFORE HE OBTAINS THAT CERTIFICATION AS A THERAPY DOG. DUTIES WILL INCLUDE BEING IN THE STATION 40 HOURS A WEEK WITH HIS HANDR.LE VISINGTI EMS, POLICE, AND FIRE STATIONS, 91 ONE STATIONS, AND DECOMPRESS