Canine Companions Assistance Dog Team Sponsorship

Canine Companions for Independence is off and running in 2019. Following a very strong 2018, in which we placed the 6,000th assistance dog in our history and placed over 300 assistance dogs for the fourth consecutive year, all six regional centers of Canine Companions have already held Team Training classes and graduation ceremonies. Throughout 2019, our regional centers will be placing more assistance dogs with people with disabilities, including placing service dogs with veterans with PTSD. Our centers in Irving, Texas, Santa Rosa, California and Medford, New York will place service dogs with veterans with PTSD.  All Canine Companions assistance dogs and follow-up services for our graduates are provided free of charge.

We are also expanding our facilities, which will enable Canine Companions to serve more people. At the Schulz Campus In Santa Rosa, California, a new training building, designed to serve students with PTSD, is under construction. The building should be completed later this year. A far larger project is a new North Central region campus. All signs point to breaking ground on the new campus in April 2019. The new campus, which will be located in New Albany, Ohio will include dormitories for students attending Team Training. The current North Central center lacks dorm rooms for our students.

DogFests and other special events will be held throughout the year from coast to coast. To learn more about upcoming events in your area and how you can make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities, please visit our website cci.org. 

Should you know of anyone who could benefit by having an assistance dog, please encourage them to visit our website.

Thank you for your continued interest in and support of Canine Companions for Independence.

2018 has been another good year for Canine Companions for Independence. For the fourth consecutive year, Canine Companions has placed over 300 assistance dogs. We achieved another milestone in November, when the 6,000th assistance dog in our organization's history was placed. 

In addition to our placement success, the organization is expanding. At the Schulz Campus in Santa Rosa, CA, ground was broken on a new training building that is designed specifically for students with PTSD who are coming to our campus to receive a service dog. This new training building, which will serve all types of students will be completed in 2019.

On a larger scale, Canine Companions announced the Campaign for a new campus in the North Central Region. The new campus is to be located in New Albany, Ohio. It will feature dorms for students in training, expanded kennels, and sufficient space that will allow for Team Trainings to be held on campus. We anticipate breaking ground for the new campus in spring 2019. 

Our organization is now headed by Paige Mazzoni, who became CEO of Canine Companions in September 2018.

We are training assistance dogs now for the first Team Training classes of 2019. Those classes will occur in the first quarter of 2019.

The financial support we receive allows us to continue to place our assistance dogs and provide graduate follow-up services free of charge. For more information on our organization, upcoming events, graduations, how to volunteer, please visit us at cci.org.