There are two founders cited for Gabriel’s Angels – not unusual for a nonprofit. In this case though, one of the founders has a winning smile, four feet and a tail.

Pam Gaber and her Weimaraner Gabriel are listed as founding the organization in 2000, when the pair was visiting local classrooms to help children learn self-control and sensitivity.

Today, Melissa Steimer is CEO of the nonprofit, leading 125 registered Pet Therapy teams working with 75 partner agencies with programs like Animal, Books, and Children (ABC), and Animal Assisted Therapy in clinical settings with a therapist.

This isn’t just a feel-good program. Arizona ranks in the bottom 20 percent of the country in terms of child well-being (Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT). One of the most notable categories was 37 of every 100,000 children and teens in the state will die, most by suicide or gun violence. The national average is 30 per 100,000, all part of a disturbing upward trend. Gabriel’s Angels work with Title I schools, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and group homes to help children with core behaviors – attachment, confidence, self-regulation, affiliation, empathy, tolerance, and respect – to help give them the tools they need for a healthy emotional life.

Melissa is the ideal leader for the organization. She has a 23-year career in nonprofits, dealing with at-risk youth and animal welfare organizations, both of which help to position her to enhance the social and emotional development of vulnerable children with the life-changing power of pet therapy.

To learn more about Gabriel’s Angels, click here: https://www.gabrielsangels.org/

Original air date: September 21, 2023.

There are two founders cited for Gabriel’s Angels – not unusual for a nonprofit. In this case though, one of the founders has a winning smile, four feet and a tail.
Pam Gaber and her Weimaraner Gabriel are listed as founding the organization in 2000, when the pair was visiting local classrooms to help children learn self-control and sensitivity.
Today, Melissa Steimer is CEO of the nonprofit, leading 125 registered Pet Therapy teams working with 75 partner agencies with programs like Animal, Books, and Children (ABC), and Animal Assisted Therapy in clinical settings with a therapist.
This isn’t just a feel-good program. Arizona ranks in the bottom 20 percent of the country in terms of child well-being (Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT). One of the most notable categories was 37 of every 100,000 children and teens in the state will die, most by suicide or gun violence. The national average is 30 per 100,000, all part of a disturbing upward trend. Gabriel’s Angels work with Title I schools, domestic violence and homeless shelters, and group homes to help children with core behaviors – attachment, confidence, self-regulation, affiliation, empathy, tolerance, and respect – to help give them the tools they need for a healthy emotional life.
Melissa is the ideal leader for the organization. She has a 23-year career in nonprofits, dealing with at-risk youth and animal welfare organizations, both of which help to position her to enhance the social and emotional development of vulnerable children with the life-changing power of pet therapy.
To learn more about Gabriel’s Angels, click here: <a href="https://www.gabrielsangels.org/">https://www.gabrielsangels.org/</a> 
 Original air date: September 21, 2023.

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world.

Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism.

Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/

The Rescuers radio show provides an opportunity to spotlight people who are working behind the scenes to make this world a better place. These people serve as inspiration and idea starters to encourage others to find creative ways to impact their community, their city, and the world. Host Art Brooks has spent his career in broadcasting, both as on-air talent and in representing the industry as president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association for nearly 30 years. He was the driving force behind an Emmy-winning series of documentaries on drug abuse that combined a phone bank of 100 seasoned counselors and history-making "roadblock," as every TV station in Arizona and many radio stations broadcast the groundbreaking show on the same day at the same time. He also was instrumental in starting AZ AMBER Alert (one of two states in the nation where broadcasters initiated the program), helped form the Native American Broadcast Institute at Northern Arizona University and consulted with broadcasters in Bulgaria to help build commercial radio as the country was coming out of communism. Rescuers airs 5:30-6 p.m. AZ time Thursdays on KPXQ-AM Faith Talk 1360, beginning May 7, 2020. Based in Phoenix, it is available internationally online. We invite you to submit names of heroes you think would be good subjects for the show - just message us on Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/">https://www.facebook.com/rescuersradioshow/</a>

Rescuers radio show

Great feel good program with insightful guests highlighting our unsung heroes helping in our communities.

Great feel good program with insightful guests highlighting our unsung heroes helping in our communities.

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