Paws For Life USA is a volunteer-run nonprofit in Marietta that trains service dogs together with the people who will use them. Dogs can be trained for needs like autism, mobility, seizures, hearing and PTSD. They also train therapy and facility dogs and give talks on service dog laws, first aid and disaster help.
Dogs for Better Lives trains assistance dogs and places them free with deaf or hard-of-hearing adults, children with autism, and professionals who work with vulnerable people. Its campuses are in Oregon and Massachusetts, and it places dogs across the United States. In Atlanta, people can foster shelter dogs in training through its partner, the Atlanta Humane Society.
Canine Assistants is a nonprofit that raises and teaches service dogs on its farm in the Alpharetta/Milton area. Since 1991, it has given dogs free of charge to children and adults with physical disabilities, seizures, diabetes, or other special needs. It also places dogs in children's hospitals and sends dogs to Atlanta-area schools so kids can practice reading.
TADSAW is a nonprofit in San Antonio, Texas. It helps veterans train a medical alert service dog for problems like PTSD, military sexual trauma, and brain injury. The veteran trains with a trainer's help and pays nothing. Other programs help veterans' family members, first responders, and children and community members, and the group has teams in many states.
Dogs Inc is a nonprofit in Palmetto, Florida. It trains guide dogs, service dogs, skilled companion dogs, and facility therapy dogs. People with vision loss, veterans, Gold Star families, and people with type 1 diabetes can get dogs at no cost, along with training, dog food, and vet care.
Paws With A Cause has trained assistance dogs since 1979. They train and place custom-trained dogs with people who have disabilities, including mobility needs, seizures, hearing loss, autism, and medical alerts. They also place facility dogs in schools, hospitals, and other places. Their headquarters is in Wayland, Michigan, and they serve people in many states.
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation breeds, trains and places German Shepherd guide dogs with people who are blind. The dogs are given at no cost to clients. Its campus is in Bloomfield, Connecticut. It also runs volunteer roles such as puppy raiser, pupsitter, breed caregiver and kennel helper.
Leader Dogs for the Blind is based in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It gives people who are blind or have low vision a trained guide dog or white cane travel lessons at no cost. It also runs a summer camp and a teen travel program, and it offers online groups and learning for graduates, families and professionals.
Guiding Eyes for the Blind gives guide dogs to people with vision loss, and all of its services are free. Students train with their new dog at the school in Yorktown Heights, New York. The group also uses volunteers to raise and care for future guide dog puppies.
Canine Companions trains service dogs, hearing dogs, medical alert dogs for diabetes, and facility dogs. It gives them for free to adults, children, veterans and professionals who qualify. People start by filling out a request online, and staff review each one.
Working Dogs For Vets is a volunteer-run nonprofit based in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It gives service dogs, most of them rescued from shelters, to disabled veterans at no cost. Veterans can train their own dog with mentors, or get a dog that volunteers trained for them.
The Guide Dog Foundation has trained guide and service dogs since 1946. It serves people who are legally blind in the USA and Canada. If accepted, people get a dog, a two-week training stay at the Smithtown, New York campus, and travel costs covered at no charge.
Guide Dogs of America | Tender Loving Canines is a nonprofit school in Sylmar, California. It breeds, raises, trains, and places guide dogs for people who are blind or have low vision. It also places service dogs with veterans and children with autism, and facility dogs with hospitals, schools, and law enforcement. The dogs are provided at no cost to the people who receive them.
Freedom Service Dogs is a nonprofit in Englewood, Colorado. It breeds and trains service dogs and gives them at no cost to veterans, first responders, and some people with physical disabilities or autism. It also supports each dog-and-handler team for life. People must travel to Colorado to get a dog.
Guide Dogs for the Blind trains guide dogs and gives them to people who are blind or have low vision. It also teaches safe travel skills with a white cane and matches pet companion dogs to children and adults. Its services for clients are free, and it serves people across the United States and Canada from campuses in California and Oregon.
The Seeing Eye is a guide dog school in Morristown, New Jersey. It has trained guide dogs since 1929.S. and Canada come to the campus to train with a new dog. The school also shares rights information, supports its graduates, and runs volunteer puppy raising.
K9s For Warriors is a nonprofit that gives trained service dogs to veterans with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or military sexual trauma. Veterans train for about three weeks at a campus in Florida or Texas, and it costs them nothing except travel. The group also places therapy dogs with first responder agencies.
Dogs For Our Brave is a veteran service group based in St. Louis, Missouri. It trains rescue dogs to help wounded veterans with mobility needs and gives the dogs to veterans for free.S.
Paws4People Foundation trains and places assistance dogs for children, adults, veterans, service members, first responders, and civilians with disabilities. Its main campus and required client training are in the Wilmington, North Carolina area, and facility visits are by appointment only.
Miracle Flights is a national nonprofit based in Las Vegas.S. to children ages 0 to 17 who qualify based on financial need, so they can reach specialized medical care. Children can fly with up to two parents or caregivers, as many times as needed.
