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K9s For Warriors is an American charity and veterans service organization that provides service dogs to veterans. [3] The organization trains rescue dogs to help veterans coping with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma, post-9/11 issues and other psychological challenges associated with military service.
K9s for Warriors, an organization that has rescued over 1,500 dogs from shelters and trained them as service dogs for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, matched Romero with ...
Kevin Steele, chief program officer at K9s for Warriors, said, per U.S. News & World Report, “Having paired more than 1,000 service dogs with veterans, our work has clearly demonstrated that ...
The study, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and released June 4, found veterans with dogs reported decreased severity of PTSD symptoms, anxiety and depression and higher ...
The first Service Dogs for Veterans (formerly known as Canines for Combat Veterans) service dog, Rainbow, was placed in 2006 with Sergeant Roland Paquette, an Afghanistan war vet who lost both his legs. Rainbow was trained by an inmate at the Northeast Correctional Center. [6] NEADS has provided service dogs to veterans at no cost since 2006.
Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.
Roughly 7% of all US service veterans have PTSD, with symptoms such as severe anxiety, sleep disturbances and agoraphobia. Military veterans say these dogs saved them from crippling PTSD — ‘He ...
On January 11, 2024, The Fund announced that its year-end Double Down for Veterans fundraising campaign raised more than $26.8 million – including a $10 million match from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation, marking the twelfth consecutive year that the foundation matched donations to The Fund and raising the foundation's cumulative total of ...