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New Animal Protection Law in Colorado -- The new law, for which Dr. Ascione provided testimony, includes animals in civil protection orders. Click here.

Denver Post features IHAC The Institute for Human-Animal Connection was recently featured in the Denver Post. Click here.

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Read about the Institute in the spring issue of 2010 GSSW MAGAZINE. Click here.

The Human-Animal Bond: Understanding the Intricate Relationship Between People and Animals -- This new course was taught fall quarter 2009 at the University of Denver by Professor Philip Tedeschi.  Click here.

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Institute Staff


Jim PyleJim Pyle, MSW, LCSW
Colorado LINK Project Manager

 

Jim Pyle, MSW, LCSW is the Project Manager for the Colorado LINK Project and also currently is an adjunct faculty and field liaison at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver.    With over 30 years of experience in the social work field with extensive experience in child welfare with “high-risk” youth and working with sexual and criminal offenders, he is well versed in patterns of violence and abuse. He has provided therapy services to both juveniles and adults in outpatient settings, residential treatment centers, in-patient psychiatric facilities and home based programs. Additionally, Jim has collaborated extensively with human service agencies, behavioral health providers, law enforcement agencies, judicial services and correctional agencies as a program manager, trainer and consultant with various state and local agencies.   Jim is also a founding board member of a small non-profit promoting self-sufficiency for young single parents.  

 

 

 

Shelby McDonaldShelby McDonald
MSW Candidate

Shelby McDonald is currently a graduate student at the University of Denver. Ms. McDonald attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) from 2002 to 2006, where she graduated summa cum laude with a BS in psychology. Her area of concentration was physiological measures of emotion regulation and their relation to the development and expression of aggression in children. Ms. McDonald was the President of her university’s Psi Chi and Psychology Club chapters, and a member of Phi Betta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, and the Golden Key Honor Society. Shelby’s academic honors include the Robert C. Bates and Friends of Psychology endowed scholarships, the awards for Virginia Tech's Outstanding Graduating Senior in Psychology, Outstanding Graduating Senior in the College of Science, and Woman of the Year (2006), as well as the National Science Foundation  Research Experience for Undergraduate program (REU)/Psi Chi grant to conduct research at the University of Wisconsin’s Waisman Center for Brain Imaging and Behavior.