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Have Popcorn with NEADS Prison Pups!

We want you to help us have a party! We'll give you all you need to host a movie event all you need to add is the people and the popcorn!

We'd like to send you filmmaker Alice Bouvrie's new documentary Prison Pups (a 58 minute documentary) for you to screen with some of your friends and colleagues. All you need to add is the popcorn. We will send you all the materials; just invite your friends and enjoy this very special behind- the-scenes glimpse into the life of four inmates at New England Correctional Center, a minimum-security facility in Concord, MA as they raise and train our service dogs.

By taking on the responsibility of caring for a puppy, the inmates develop self-confidence and the capacity for nurturing and affection. They experience a profound sense of empowerment and self- renewal, poignantly revealed when one of the inmates meets his dog's owner when he comes to visit the prison.

This film won Best Documentary Award and has been the official selection at several other festivals. We offer it to you to enjoy, with people of your choice, so that we can raise awareness of this, our very special program. Ms. Bouvrie has won several awards and she has graciously made it available for us to send to you.

We will send you all you need to have a private screening Please let us know as soon as you schedule a date for the showing

Collect people's names and email address for us. We will add these names to our list of people interested in the the Prison PUP Partnership and in Canines for Combat Veterans.

To recieve your prison pup party package: sobrien@neads.org 978-422-9064 ext 11

These parties are fun, educational, and very important to the Canines for Combat Veterans program. Please have one soon and enjoy the time with your friends!