Our Impact

Founded in 2000 in Phoenix, Arizona, Gabriel’s Angels is dedicated to improving the lives of children through interactions with animals. Gabriel’s Angels’ core service is delivering pet therapy, or animal-assisted activities, to at-risk children throughout the state. The program recruits and trains volunteers to achieve their mission to “inspire confidence, compassion, and best-behaviors in at-risk children through pet therapy.” In its 20 year legacy serving the youth of Arizona, Gabriel’s Angels has consistently and actively sought out evaluative feedback to improve its services, a quality of critical value in the growing area of animal-assisted therapy. The program has also developed a logic model where its services and key activities are linked with its intended outcomes. This report extends that work and provides new data from the sites on the program’s impact.

Gabriel's Angels 2019 Impact Evaluation Report