By Cathy King | Executive Director
According to US Congress Joint Economic Committee Chairman’s Staff, Senator Bob Casey, “more than 1.4 million veterans are living below the poverty line, and another 1.4 million veterans are living just above it.” The conclusion of this report reiterates education, and use of creative means toward gaining education, as a critical factor for the economic success of military veterans suffering from PTSD and Depression.
The mission of Canines With a Cause (CWAC) is to create sustainable programs and processes to effectively and holistically pair combat veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) with well-trained service dogs. By adhering closely to our mission, CWAC with trainers and canines move Veterans from a state of PTSD toward a state of Post-Traumatic-Growth (PTG).
By committing to positive “growth,” we become one (of many) step(s) on the soldier’s’ path toward healing and more importantly we are able to develop creative-individualize training solutions that meet the mental, emotional and most especially the economic-stability challenges veterans face today.
CWAC is proud to announce the expansion of our lifesaving programs to Northern Nevada. We are partnering with PetNetwork Humane Society in Incline Village, Warm Springs Correctional Institute and the Reno VA. The inmate trainers at Warm Springs are veterans.
Over the past eight years, CWAC has developed a successful template based upon assessing/training dogs in the Utah State Women's Prison and placing them with veterans through the Salt Lake City VA and local Vet Centers. Free training is provided for veterans to give them skills to train their dogs to service or assistant status. The training also helps them cope with PTSD (based upon research from the National Institute for Veteran Studies at the University of Utah) and transition back to family life including; returning to the workplace and/or college or trade school.
This means more dogs will be rescued from shelters and find loving homes with purpose, more veterans will receive dogs and training enabling them to move forward with their lives in a positive manner, and more incarcerated men and women will give back and receive needed vocational skills.
A win-win-win for all.
Thank you for your ongoing support, it's because of you we can make this happen.
Sincerely,
Cathy
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
