The recently broadcast NatGeo TV special "and Man created Dog" had a full segment about a PSD named Tuesday (a Golden) that was helping an Iraq war vet deal with physical trauma and PTSD. It left no doubt whatsoever that the dog was the main healing force in the man's life.
So just thinking out loud and doing some googling...
It looks like PSD's are not yet accepted as a treatment protocol within the VA pending the results from a Congressionally mandated VA study of the effectivness of PSD's. Just search for "dog" in the links below.
If the VA study comes back in support of the use of PSD's, there would likely follow some amount of government funding available for organizations that can provide the dogs, training, and other related services to meet the demand.
I am trying to get my thoughts together with everything we discussed earlier so I can avoid writing a novel.
but here is what I am thinking off the top of my head.
I don't know anything about the legality of it all so none of this may work.
I think the idea of owner training is excellent, the issue would be having a trainer in the area to meet the needs of the veterans.
I don't have any ideas what the legal requirements would be for a trainer, but once you have your curriculum figured out you would automatically have a test for potential new trainers.
There would also need to be a network or dog evaluators, transporters and fosters to get these dogs to where they need to be and socialized and ready for their new soldier.
What will you do with dogs who either don't make the cut or for whatever reason don't end up being a good match?
Juliana: I want to use young adult dogs from rescue groups or from shelters.
Thanks Betty! I'm sure there is funding..or will be, but right now I'm an unknown so I want to go private funding till i get a reputation and some results. I will be watching for possible funding opportunities though.
Tammy: That was a great article and I am going to call some of those contacts. Thank you!!! Got any more?
Tim: Thanks for the links!!!!
I have seen tat video, It is excellent. Thanks for the other links...It would be nice if the VA approved them..then there could be funding from that quarter.
Jenifer: Those are all great points...As far as the washouts go, that is one reason I like the idea of using rescues...the one's I have talked to are willing to take the dogs back if there are problems. They will be really easy to adopt out as service dog washouts.
I really appreciate everyone's offers of help and all the suggestions!!!
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Re: Psychiatric service dogs owner train program
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