WE TRAIN DOGS WHO CHANGE LIVES
Our Mission
Service Dogs Alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disabilities as well as intervention facility dogs. Service Dogs Alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to reach their full potential.
Our Impact
Service Dogs Alabama provides highly skilled service dogs to Veterans and teens. These service dogs are trained in one of the following service fields: PTSD intervention, mobility assistance, seizure intervention, or autism intervention.
We also provide Facility Dogs to schools, justice centers, and hospitals where the impact of a dog can provide support for the mission of the facility.
Types of Service Dogs
SEIZURE ALERT
Dogs are trained to stay with their person in public areas if they should fall and have a seizure. At home, they can be trained to either press an Alarm Button OR go and get help.
FACILITY DOGS
SDA Facility Dogs are trained for intervention tasks and to work with multiple people. They are chosen for this particular training when their personalities are confident enough to work off-leash without direction.
MOBILITY/WHEELCHAIR ASSISTANCE
Picking things up, opening and closing doors and drawers, pulling wheelchair, and fall alert.
AUTISM
Intervention of meltdowns, compression techniques, intercept anxiety.
PTSD
Circling on command, waking their person from a nightmare, disrupting an anxiety attack.
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June 2019
These people are saving lives. They saved my life. They gave my daughter her Dad back.
Ret. US Army Sgt Combat Medic Jeremy Millwood