Northeast Ohio therapy dog organization lends listening ear to trauma victims
While visiting Valley Forge High School in Parma Heights the day after an 18-year-old student took her life in the schools’ cafeteria on April 20, Shirley Graziano, the president and founder of Crisis Canine Corps (CCC), and therapy dog Zodiac noticed two young girls in the library.
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