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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 ...
Shannon Walker: I wish people understood the profound impact that service dogs have on the lives of Veterans battling PTSD. These remarkable animals are not pets: they are highly trained tools ...
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 ...
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.
NEADS has provided service dogs to veterans at no cost since 2006. Since that time, NEADS has matched over 100 dogs with veterans. NEADS was the first service dog organization in the US to be invited to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to present the ways service dogs could help wounded combat veterans.
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There's no cost to vets; the expense of training the dogs (around $70,000 for each dog, Bozzini said) and hosting veterans is supported by donors and philanthropic organizations.
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 ...