Service Animals
Service animals are any animal that has been trained to assist you in your activities of daily living. Most often this will be a service dog, also called a guide dog or seeing eye dog. But there are also service monkeys, service birds, and even service donkeys. Check with the organizations to find the information you need to make a good service animal choice.
Organizations
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Mission is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities by the training and placement of service dogs to provide individuals with companionship and promote independent living; educate the public to accept the use of service dogs in public places; and assist with animal rescue whenever possible by obtaining many of our animals from shelters and rescue groups. Located in Xenia, Ohio.
Assistance Dogs International, Inc.
ADI is a coalition for nonprofit organizations that train assistance dogs. ADI's mission is to better all steps of the process, from training to utilization of service dogs to public education about assistance dogs.
Canine Companions for Independence
Canine Companions for Independence is the largest nonprofit provider of assistance dogs. CCI's mission is to improve the lives of people with disabilities with well-trained assistance dogs.
Canine Partners of the Rockies
CaPR provides Colorado residents with limited mobility with highly trained service dogs.
Delta Society's mission is to better human health through service animals and therapy. The Delta Society also attempts to promote awareness of the positive effects animals can have on peoples' health.
Dogs for Autism provides trained service dogs for children in autism in the Greenville, SC area.
Dogs for the Disabled, based in UK, trains service dogs to improve the lives of adults and children who have disabilities.
The Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation is based in Bloomfield, Connecticut and is New England’s only guide dog school. With clients in 34 states and four Canadian provinces, Fidelco relies solely on the gifts and the generosity of individuals, foundations, corporations and organizations that partner with Fidelco to “Share the Vision.”
Freedom Service Dogs, located in Colorado, rescues dogs from shelters for the purpose of training them to be service animals. Dogs are custom-trained.
Guide Dogs for the Blind's mission is to provide improved mobility for blind/visually impaired individuals through partnerships with service dogs.
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