Delta Society held its annual meeting in Cincinnati the last week of October. Sandi Arrington and Cindy Ehlers, assisted by "Bear", reported on their work at the Springfield, Oregon school shooting last year. They worked with counselors sent by NOVA out of Washington, D.C. With the help of students from Thurston High School, Sandi and Cindy put together a video for the presentation at the Delta meeting. 

Buddy Hayes' dog, "Brooke", received a dog-of-the-year award at the banquet for her work with brain trauma individuals in Virginia. 

Public Law 104-264 Section 7 states that the NTSB and the Red Cross are to be the responders to air plane crashes. ACCRA made contact with the Red Cross offering crisis response teams which were available out of New York, the closest teams to Rhode Island. The Red Cross official in Washington advised ACCRA that using therapy dogs would not be appropriate in this situation because "there is no facility" and "people are scattered all over the place". Exactly just how much counseling was available to the families is unclear. 

Television news reported that a local TV reporter in Denver suffered serious depression resulting from his coverage of the shooting in Littleton, Colorado. Apparently, he has lost his job because of his depression. Had dog/handler teams been on site and available to those working there, as well as students and families, might this reporter have recognized his difficulties sooner and maybe even had some of his stress relieved by contact with the dogs?