Chapter 10: Personal Assistance and In-Home Services
Section 6: Training Programs for Service Dogs, Hearing Dogs, Social/Therapy Dogs, Seizure Alert/Response Dogs and Other Assistance Animals
Listing by state.
4 Paws for Ability, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
4 Paws for Ability trains and places service animals with people with disabilities.
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American Service Dog Association
Email: [email protected]
American Service Dog Association is a nonprofit organization of professional dog trainers, dedicated to the training and placement of service dogs.
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Animals Deserve Better Inc
Email: [email protected]
Animals Deserve Better, Inc. specializes in orphaned babies, pregnant mums and special needs cases.
Paws for Life is a is one of the main focuses of the organization – of the animals that we rescue from high kill shelters about 30% are trained for service, therapy, assistance or facility work. Paws for Life provides children and adults with disabilities specially trained dogs.
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Anthem Service Dogs
Email: [email protected]
Anthem Service Dogs provides free service dogs to individuals who apply to their program suffering from PTSD and/or mobility disabilities. Both veterans and civilians are served.
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Assistance Dogs of America, Inc.
Assistance Dogs for Achieving Independence (ADAI) helps individuals with disabilities achieve greater independence by training and placing service and therapy dogs to assist with the individual’s daily needs.
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Assistance Dogs of the West
Email: [email protected]
Assistance Dogs of the West (ADW) builds successful working partnerships between clients and dogs that empower people and open doors to new opportunities.
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C.H.A.M.P. Assistance Dogs, Inc.
C.H.A.M.P. Assistance Dogs, Inc., is a nonprofit organization which places skilled service dogs with people who have disabilities to help them lead lives of greater independence, and places facility dogs with professionals who utilize their dogs' special skills in healthcare facilities, courthouses, and children’s advocacy centers.
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Canine Assistance Partners Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Canine Assistance Partners is a non-profit agency dedicated to the training and provision of specifically qualified working dogs to assist physically and emotionally disabled individuals so that they may obtain a greater degree of personal freedom, independence, and self-reliance.
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Canine Assistants
Email: [email protected]
Canine Assistants is a non-profit organization, founded in 1991, which trains and provides service dogs for children and adults with physical disabilities or other special needs.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Founded in 1975, Canine Companions for Independence® is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. There are various locations in the U.S.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI is funded by private contributions and receives no government funding. There is no charge to the graduate for a CCI assistance dog.
The Southwest Region serves the states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Southern California, Southern Nevada and Hawaii.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI is funded by private contributions and receives no government funding. There is no charge to the graduate for a CCI assistance dog.
The Southeast Regional Center services the eight states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI is funded by private contributions and receives no government funding. There is no charge to the graduate for a CCI assistance dog.
The North Central Regional Center serves 13 and a half states: everything west of Pittsburgh, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The North Central Region also serves our graduate teams living in eastern Canada.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. CCI is funded by private contributions and receives no government funding. There is no charge to the graduate for a CCI assistance dog.
The Northeast Region of Canine Companions for Independence is responsible for graduates, puppy raisers, applicants and candidates, volunteers, donors and supporters in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
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Canine Helpers for the Handicapped, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Canine Helpers for the Handicapped Inc. is a NON-PROFIT organization dedicated to training dogs to assist people with disabilities to lead more independent and secure lives.
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Canine Partners For Life
Email: [email protected]
Canine Partners For Life (CPL) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to training service dogs, home companion dogs, and residential companion dogs to assist individuals who have a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities.
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Canine Partners of the Rockies, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
CaPR trains dogs to provide assistance to people who have limited mobility, from individuals who use wheelchairs to those requiring a steady four-legged partner to balance them as they walk. CaPR only places dogs with Colorado residents. People with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, post polio syndrome, ataxia and other mobility limiting conditions may be eligible to receive a CaPR Service Dog Partner.
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Canine Support Teams
Email: [email protected]
Canine Support Teams' mission is to provide specially trained dogs to persons with disabilities to support their personal, social, and occupational independence.
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Carolina Canines for Service, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Carolina Canines for Service, Inc's mission is to empower people with disabilities to achieve greater independence and enhanced quality of life through the services of specially trained assistance dogs.
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Circle Tail, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Circle Tail's mission is to provide service and hearing dogs for people with disabilities at no cost to the individual. They also promote the human-canine bond in their community by providing low cost dog training services, educational programs, and Pet First Aid classes. Circle Tail is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located near Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Companion Animal Association of Arizona
Email: [email protected]
CAAA continues its commitment to elderly and disabled persons with special needs relating to companion animals and the Human/Animal Bond. This commitment is made through Social Pet Therapy and Pet Grief Support programs as well as other support for this special needs community. To accomplish these goals, CAAA maintains a network of community volunteers and has a cooperative working relationship with agencies, community organizations, and veterinarians throughout the state.
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Dogs for the Deaf, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Dogs for Better Lives is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in Central Point, Oregon. Certified professional staff train and place Assistance Dogs with individuals who experience deafness; with children who are on the autism spectrum; and with professionals such as teachers, physicians, and licensed therapists whose students and clients can benefit from the dogs’ calming presence.
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Duo Dogs
Email: [email protected]
Duo Dogs is a national not-for-profit organization that trains and connects dogs with people to cultivate positive change in individuals, families, and communities.
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East Coast Assistance Dogs
Email: [email protected]
East Coast Assistance Dogs' mission is to enable people with disabilities to gain greater independence and mobility through the use of specially educated dogs.
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Fidos for Freedom, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Fidos For Freedom, Inc. is run by a group of volunteers who strive to increase the quality of life for people living in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan community through the use of hearing dogs, service dogs and therapy dogs.
The non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization is based in Laurel, Maryland.
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Florida Dog Guides for the Deaf, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
This program trains hearing, service, and specialty dogs for Florida's Deaf.
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Freedom Service Dogs
Email: [email protected]
Trains dogs to assist people with multiple disabilities such as autism, traumatic brain injury (TBI), multiple sclerosis (MS), muscular dystrophy (MD), Down syndrome, cerebral palsy (CP), spinal cord injuries, and more.
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Great Plains Assistance Dogs
Service Dogs for America is a 501(c)3 non-profit that trains dogs to assist people with various disabilities.
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Guide Dog Users, Inc. (GDUI)
Guide Dog Users Inc., (GDUI), is the leading consumer-driven organization of guide dog handlers in the world. GDUI is an affiliate of the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and is a founding member of the Coalition of Assistance Dog Organizations (CADO).
Drawing on the experiences and varied knowledge of its members, GDUI provides peer support, advocacy and information to guide dog users everywhere. In addition, GDUI works with public entities, private businesses and individuals to ensure that guide dog users enjoy the same rights to travel, employment, housing, and participation in all aspects of life that people without disabilities enjoy.
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Handi-Dogs Inc.
Email: [email protected]
Handi-Dogs, Inc. a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization that is dedicated to helping older adults and people with disabilities gain independence and improve their quality of life through specialized training of dogs and to advocate about the important role of service dogs.
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Happy Tails Service Dogs, Inc.
Happy Tails Service Dogs is a 501(c )3 nonprofit organization that teaches persons with physical disabilities how to train their dog to be a service dog as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Hawaii FI-DO
Email: [email protected]
Hawaii Fi-Do Service Dogs is a small 501(c)3 non profit corporation built with volunteers from the ground up. They provide service dogs to people with disabilities other than blindness.
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Hearing and Service Dogs of Minnesota Can Do Canines
Email: [email protected]
Can Do Canines is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs.
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Helping Hands Monkey Helpers for the Disabled
Email: [email protected]
Helping Hands Monkey Helpers is a non-profit organization that helps adults with spinal cord injuries and other mobility impairments live more independent and engaged lives. They do this by providing clients, free of charge, with a unique service animal: a highly trained capuchin monkey to help with their daily tasks.
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Helping Paws
Helping Paws is a leading nonprofit organization that breeds, trains, and places assistance dogs with people who have physical disabilities and veterans and first responders with PTSD.
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High Plains Service Dogs and Therapeutic Riding Center Association
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High Plains Service Dogs and Therapeutic Ridding Center Association trains rescued shelter dogs to become service dogs for Oklahoman's with various needs, they save the dogs life and the dog goes on to aid its partner through life. They train dogs for Diabetics and other blood sugar disorders, Mobility needs (MS, MD, Parkinson's and more), Wheelchair assistance, Autism, Seizure Disorders, Severe Allergies and more. They train based on each individuals needs and match dogs specifically per the persons personality and daily needs.
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Honoring America's Warriors
Honoring America's Warriors mission is fulfilled by creating activities that allow these men and women to be with other veterans' peer to peer who cope with the same issues on a daily basis in a non-clinical environment.
Honoring America’s Warriors, exclusive in Oklahoma, provides assistance dogs, training, equipment, and veterinary care to qualifying service-connected disabled veterans at no cost.
Service dog website link with information: https://honoringamericaswarriors.org/programs/service-dog-program
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Indiana Canine Assistant Network (ICAN)
Email: [email protected]
ICAN, Inc. is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization that trains and places assistance dogs with youth, adults and people with disabilities.
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International Hearing Dog, Inc.
International Hearing Dog Inc. rescues shelter dogs to assist persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, with and without multiple disabilities, at no cost to the recipient.
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Kings Valley Collies
Email: [email protected]
This organization breeds, raises and trains Collies for service to people with disabilities.
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KSDS
Email: [email protected]
KSDS provides guide dogs for the visually impaired, service dogs to assist individuals with physical disabilities, and facility dogs that assist professionals in the field of education, counseling, healthcare, retirement, or the legal system.
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Leashes for Living
Email: [email protected]
A program that teaches you, to teach your dog and become a magnificent Service Dog Team.
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Liberty Assistance Dogs, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
LADI is non-profit 501-(c)(3) organization that provides assistance dogs for persons with disabilities and trains people to train their own assistance dogs.
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National Education for Assistance Dog Services (NEADS)
NEADS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was established in 1976 and has trained over 1,800 Service Dog teams since its founding. NEADS is accredited by Assistance Dogs International, the internationally recognized governing body that establishes industry standards and practices.
NEADS offers the widest array of Service Dog programs in the industry, while still holding true to their core mission of producing Service Dogs for individuals with disabilities.
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New Horizons Service Dogs, Inc.
Email: [email protected]
New Horizons Service Dogs is a non-profit 501(c)(3)organization that partners trained dogs with the disabled, mostly in the area of wheelchair and mobility assistance.
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Northern Indiana Service Dogs
Email: [email protected]
Northern Indiana Service Dogs train their dogs to work in the following areas: Mobility assistance, autism, seizure and PTSD.
Paws As Loving Support (PALS) Assistance Dogs
Email: [email protected]
Paws As Loving Support (PALS) Assistance Dogs is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the human/animal bond by providing specially trained:
Service PALS help children with disabilities, including Autism and Downs syndrome, mobility and psychiatric impairments.
Facility PALS assist professionals working with children with special needs.
Courthouse PALS provide emotional support and comfort to victims and witnesses of violent crimes before, during and at the conclusion of a trial.
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Paws With A Cause
Email: [email protected]
Paws With A Cause enhances the independence and quality of life for people with disabilities nationally through custom-trained assistance dogs.
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Paws'itive Teams
Email: [email protected]
Paws'itive Teams, incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in California, provides service dogs for persons with disabilities, enabling these persons to live more independent lives and to achieve an enhanced quality of life. They custom train service dogs to meet the specific needs of the individual and provide lifetime team support following placement. All placements are limited to San Diego County.
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Prison Pet Partnership Program
Email: [email protected]
Prison Pet Partnership (PPP) gives inmates the opportunity to learn valuable pet care vocational skills to use in finding employment when they resume their lives outside of prison. To ensure that they receive ample experience in the pet care industry, inmate employees are required to spend a minimum of two years with the organization.
PPP takes in rescue dogs and purpose-bred puppies from other service dog organizations to train and place as service and therapy dogs. Their service dogs are able to respond to the needs of individuals who experience seizures, those who live with various illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis, and those who have multiple disabilities by assisting them in their daily activities and giving them increased independence.