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
- www.pawsforpurplehearts.org
About Paws for Purple Hearts
Published by Paws for Purple Hearts on their own website. Quoted here in full as they wrote it.
CANINE-ASSISTED WARRIOR THERAPY®
Paws for Purple Hearts is the first organization of its kind to offer Canine-Assisted Warrior Therapy® (formerly referred to as Canine Assisted Therapeutic Intervention). We began in 2006 as a research program at the prestigious Bergin College of Canine Studies together with the Menlo Park Veterans Administration Medical Center. Paws for Purple Hearts has since evolved into a separate non-profit organization operating with its own 501(c)(3) status.
Paws for Purple Hearts is the world’s only service dog organization for wounded Service Members and Veterans that partners with Bergin College of Canine Studies. Bergin College is the first and only college in the world that focuses on training and learning about dogs. It was founded and continues to be led by the famous canine researcher and inventor of the service dog concept, Dr. Bonnie Bergin.
Through its unique mission to advance human-canine studies, it produces the some of the best service dog trainers and highest quality assistance dogs. Although Paws for Purple Hearts is now separate from Bergin College, all of our trainers are Bergin graduates.
Giving Back To Those Who Gave So Much.
Giving Back To Those Who Gave So Much.
Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America’s Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality Assistance Dogs and canine-assisted therapy programs; and by building public awareness about the important role dogs play in helping Warriors along the road to recovery.
Mission
OUR CORE VALUES
P.A.W.S.
Professional
We maintain the highest standards in all we do.
Adaptable
We innovate and create to exceed the needs of America’s Warriors.
Warriors
Our #1 focus: America’s Veterans and Service Members.
Service
We eagerly get the job done for internal and external customers
ABOUT BONNIE BERGIN
The distinguished Dr. Bergin has been honored with numerous awards including the prestigious Presidential Points of Light Award; Oprah Winfrey’s “Use Your Life Award”; “What Matters” HBO TV; Council on Disability Rights Individual Achievement Award; and Alumni of the Year Sonoma State University.
Dr. Bonita (Bonnie) Bergin invented the concept of the Service Dog to assist people with mobility limitations in 1975. At that time, she founded Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), the first nonprofit to train and place Service Dogs.
After leaving CCI In 1991, Dr. Bergin founded the Assistance Dog Institute, which was formally designated a university in early 2004. Today, the growing Bergin College of Canine Studies is the only college dedicated to teaching service dog trainers in the world.
“As I sat there listening to suggestions like stainless steel on the walls of institutions being a better way to manage situations for people with disabilities, and nutritious meals, which did make sense, of course.
Our write-up
Paws for Purple Hearts 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: www.pawsforpurplehearts.org
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