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GA Good News: Therapy Dogs, Black Wall Street, Hospital Grades

Good news around GA this week includes therapy dogs helping inmates, Leapfrog hospital grades and the New Black Wall Street Market opening.

In Pups with a Purpose, certain female inmates are selected to provide foster care and basic obedience training to shelter dogs. In turn, the inmates are able to enhance their social and vocational skills to better succeed once released from jail.
In Pups with a Purpose, certain female inmates are selected to provide foster care and basic obedience training to shelter dogs. In turn, the inmates are able to enhance their social and vocational skills to better succeed once released from jail. (Kathleen Sturgeon/Patch)

GEORGIA — Amid the bad news, there's still good news to be shared, including Forsyth County Jail's Pups with a Purpose program; the upcoming grand opening of the New Black Wall Street Market in DeKalb County; Leapfrog's newly-released hospital grades; mentorship for at-risk youth in Bartow County; Toys for Tots participation and more.

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