Assistance Dogs

Provides fully certified assistance dogs. Service and hearing dogs offer life-changing independence to those with physical disabilities other than blindness.

• Service Dogs
  • Trained to do tasks such as open and close doors, turn lights on and off, retrieve a telephone or other objects, pick up dropped objects (like a bank card or keys), pull manual wheelchairs, carry items like groceries, retrieve medication and provide balance and stability to clients with mobility issues.
• PTSD Service Dogs
  • Trained to support first responders and veterans with C-PTSD or PTSD. Trained to facilitate wellness and social re-integration in a variety of ways. Provide important physical, calming and grounding skills. Selected for their awareness and positive response to human emotions such as stress, anxiety ad fear.
• Hearing Dogs
  • Trained to alert their partner to a variety of sounds such as knocking on the door, doorbells, ringing telephones, timers and smoke alarms. Trained to alert their partner to what is causing the sound by physically touching the person with their paw or nose.
• Facility Dogs
  • Assist community care professionals where there would be physical, social or emotional improvement with the addition of a dog and its specially trained dog-handler team. May work with groups or individuals of any age.
• VIP Dogs
  • These are well-trained dogs that were not suitable for working with a client in public but are suitable as a pet for a child or adult who has a disability. VIP dogs do not have any public access or special skills training.