Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, Inc.

Description

For 30 years, Helping Hands has trained service monkeys to assist our recipients with activities of daily living within their home environment only. Many of these essential tasks are uniquely suited to service monkeys including retrieving dropped items such as phones and remote controls from the floor, loading DVDs, pushing buttons on TVs and computers, opening bottles of water, turning pages of a book, adjusting reading glasses, repositioning an arm or a leg on a wheelchair after a muscle spasm and a wide variety of other activities.

Helping Hands has developed a rigorous multi-year socialization and training program that ensures that every monkey is trained using the same standardized procedures and policies that are measured by quantifiable benchmarks that were first established by the U.S. Veterans Administration in 1982. Every Helping Hands monkey receives top quality veterinary care throughout its life. Furthermore, Helping Hands staff members provide 24/7 support services to respond to any questions that may arise for any of its service monkeys and/or their human recipients/caretaker(s.)