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The aim of the project is to support resocialization of people getting out of jail by giving them an opportunity to train shelter dogs. By helping to raise the well-being of shelter dogs, participants'' own emotional well-being rises as well. They learn how to be socially proactive. They gain new important skills that help them in life and in finding and keeping a job (patience, consistency, moving with small steps towards improving results, noticing the improvement, and reflecting over them). Together with project partners, Baltic Institute for Crime Prevention and Social Rehabilitation, Foundation for Diaconia and Social Work of Estonian Evangelical Church and Johannes Mihkelson Centre, a programme that has previously been used as a separate intervention method will be changed so that it could be used as a tool by mentors. This will allow the programme to reach part of the target group, who live outside of Tallinn and Tartu and whose native language is Russian.