At a glance
- Category
- Service Dogs
- How it's listed
- Found in our own research. Its site was confirmed live and serving the military community on . That is a check that it exists, not a judgement that it is good.
- Website
- nextstepservicedogs.org
About Next Step Service Dogs
Published by Next Step Service Dogs on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
Program History
Next Step Service Dogs was founded in 2012 by Sally Montrucchio. The focus of NSSD is to implement a new flagship program to serve military men and women who would benefit from the use of a service dog for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and/or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and/or Military Sexual Trauma (MST), and also for those military men and women who would benefit from a career training service dogs for their fellow warriors.
Our Mission
The mission of Next Step Service Dogs (NSSD) is to enhance and renew the lives of Veterans and First Responders living with visible and invisible injuries including PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries with the placement of custom trained service dogs.
What We Do
NSSD is reducing the surging demand for well-trained and effective service dogs by supporting clients in training their own dogs for service or by pairing them with suitable donated dogs to train.
Next Step Service Dogs does not charge for service dogs or their training and supports each dog through its lifetime.
Our write-up
Next Step Service Dogs is in our directory because we went looking for resources in this category and confirmed theirs is real and serving this community. What you see above is their own description, quoted from their site. We have not yet added our own write-up — the programs, eligibility and military fit that we check ourselves — and we would rather leave that blank than guess at it.
In the meantime, their official site is the authority: nextstepservicedogs.org
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