Healing Happens Through Connection
At Unleashed PAwS, people and animals come together to bring comfort, companionship, and hope to our community. We provide trained pet-assisted support visits in healthcare, education, and community settings.
Unleashed is currently serving the Yuba-Sutter region.
What Unleashed Makes Possible
Unleashed exists to bring meaningful animal-assisted support to the Yuba-Sutter community, where dedicated services like this are still limited. Our goal is to create safe, compassionate spaces where people can experience comfort, resilience, and connection through the human-animal bond.
Comfort for Seniors
Gentle visits can brighten a room, ease loneliness, and create moments of joy and connection, especially when loved ones cannot be there. Mango’s visits with seniors helped lift spirits during the holidays and beyond.
Support in Healthcare
Animal-assisted support can bring peace and emotional relief during some of life’s hardest moments. From recovery to end-of-life care, these visits offer comfort that medicine alone cannot provide.
Calmer Learning Spaces
For students experiencing stress or anxiety, a therapy animal’s presence can help create a sense of calm, focus, and safety. Even a short visit can help a child settle in and feel more supported.
Community Healing
Unleashed is building a future where schools, libraries, hospitals, shelters, and community programs can all benefit from compassionate pet-assisted support. We believe healing grows through connection, for both people and animals.
What We Are Not
Unleashed PAwS provides structured, evidence-informed pet-assisted support visits — not clinical therapy.
We’re not the therapists. The animals are.
Meet Mango
Mango is the heart behind Unleashed. What began as one dog bringing comfort to Kimberly’s mother and other seniors became something much bigger: a calling to build a nonprofit rooted in compassion, dignity, and healing. After seeing firsthand how animals can ease pain, calm fear, and help people open up, Kimberly created Unleashed to bring that same support to more people in our community.
What People Are Saying
“During a long and isolating hospital recovery, a therapy dog brought peace, comfort, and hope when it was needed most.”
Dan Flores
Library Study Buddy: A neurodivergent student shared that Mango helped ease anxiety and made it easier to focus.
Emergency Room End-of-Life Care: Mango brought comfort to a family in their final moments.
Sharing Christmas with Seniors: Mango lifted spirits during the holidays when family could not be there.
There’s A Place For You Here
Request A Visit
Is your facility or organization looking for support? We’d love to connect.
Volunteer
Whether you have a pet partner or just a willing heart, there’s a role for you here.
Donate
Every visit is free. Your support helps keep it that way.