Making Best Friends for Life
NPO for Behavior Support and Training
Our Mission
Aiming to remove financial barriers for behavior support and training programs for individuals living with or organizations overseeing the care of animals.
Every service purchased and donation made
funds free programs for those in need.
Constructional Approach to Animal Welfare and Training is a 501c3 Non-Profit Organization.
How We Serve
Consultation
We offer a variety of online group classes to learn Constructional Approach, Constructional Affection, and Constructional Aggression Treatment! CEUs are available for some classes. We also offer private and organizational consultations where we work together to meet our client's meaningful goals!
All the profits from CAAWT Membership, CAAWT online group classes, private consultations, workshop, and conference will fund free programs that CAAWT offers for individuals and facilities that oversee the care of animals.
CAAWT Online Group Class
We offer a variety of group classes where you can learn about the science of behavior, the Constructional Approach (Goldiamond, 1974/2002; Layng, T. V. J. et al., 2022), measurement and data collection, behavior assessments, and how to design and program using the Constructional Approach to achieve you and your furry friends' meaningful goals.
Please check back when we open a new class!
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CAAWT Constructional Affection Japan Tour 2024
This August, Sean and Maasa are going to do in-person workshops in 6 cities in Japan: Fukuoka, Kochi Osaka, Tokyo, Saitama, and Hokkaido. During the Japan Tour, we will teach Constructional Affection (Constructional Aggression Treatment in Saitama only) with dogs! The workshops are made possible in collaboration with Japanese CAAWT members! We are excited to meet people in Japan who are dedicated to helping animals and people in need!
*The Japan Tour pages are in Japanese.
Projects
Fundraising: Digitalizing Critical Interviews in Behavior Analysis and Animal Training
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CAAWT is currently collecting donations to help preserve over 200 interviews done by Marian and Bob Bailey - never before seen! Please click here to learn more about this amazing opportunity to preserve and delight in the history of our field!
As we digitize, we will release on our YouTube Channel - Constructional Approach to Animal Welfare and Training.
Biography: The Life of Israel Goldiamond
We are pleased to bring you our first biography for the "On the Shoulder of Giants" podcast series. This biography will feature interviews with Dr. Goldiamond, his students, family, and friends. This biography will follow Dr. Goldiamond's entire life, exploring his early childhood in post-WWI Ukraine, moving to the U.S. and growing up through the roaring '20s, his contributions to the Allied efforts in WWII, his lasting impacts on those close to him, and his discoveries in the field of Behavior Analysis.