Best Buddies International!!

Happy Anniversary Rianner!!! Just one year ago, Rianner joined the VCA HAH team as a Kennel Attendant. His primary responsibility lies in keeping the flow of fresh linens to our ever active prep and boarding areas.  It is a full time job some days and he never disappoints with the pride he brings to each task.    
What makes this anniversary even more special is that it also commemorates our hospital’s partnership with Best Buddies International. Just over a year ago, Anthony Shriver brought his pet to the HAH for a typical exam. What resulted was a conversation about his global volunteer movement-Best Buddies International.

In celebration of this partnership, the VCA HAH is proud to announce our participate in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk May 16^th.  The Best Buddies Friendship Walk is the ‘latest and greatest’ life changing movement created by Best Buddies.  Taking place at

Museum Park

2015 State Walk Honoree: Holland & Knight

http://www.bestbuddiesflorida.org

This event raises money to fund the Best Buddies state programs which provide one-to-one friendships, leadership development and integrated job opportunities for individuals with IDD.
Please visit our Walk page at: http://www.Bestbuddiesflorida.org/soflawalk/woofriders1 to learn more about this event, Best Buddies International and our team of Woof Riders and considering a donation to Best Buddies. Your generosity will create life-changing possibilities.

A brief history of our partnership with Best Buddies Inc.
In 1989, Anthony Shriver founded Best Buddies with the intention of creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Mr. Shiver saw our practice as a potential fit for integrated employment and introduced us to Rianeer.

Now, it took a little more than that simple introduction to be sure.  The Best Buddies organization came out and got to know us. We met their local ‘Big Man on Campus’-Ray and he gave our hospital a thorough exam. Working closely with our Hospital Management team they found opportunities that might fit a potential Best Buddies client and then came Rianner.

This incredible company has grown from a single original chapter to almost 1,900 middle school, high school, and college chapters worldwide. There are Best Buddies participants in each of the 50 United States and in over 50 countries around the world. The Best Buddies organization provides secure rewarding jobs for people with IDD and we could not be more proud to be a part of their efforts and to specifically have Rianner on our team.

We look forward to joining other area business and supporter if Best Buddies in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk May 16^th. 

Museum Park
2015 State Walk Honoree: Holland & Knight

This event raises money to fund the Best Buddies state programs which provide one-to-one friendships, leadership development and integrated job opportunities for individuals with IDD.

Best Buddies Friendship Walk

South Florida

Saturday, May 16 | Museum Park

2015 State Walk Honoree: Holland & Knight