High Plains Association of Service Dog Advocates

We are a two prong program. One part is an advocacy group dedicated to assisting existing assistance animal teams with overcoming societal, and architectural barriers or to offer training advise and or actual assistance or guidance if they need that for their current dog team mate. A team may be denied access to an ambulance ride with a guide dog for instance, and we have stepped-in, in real world time, to assist in righting the misunderstanding. We have advocated for persons with Assistance Dogs who were denied housing because they had a Service Dog. In Federally funded housing programs, that is considered discriminatory and is not allowed. In addition to educating or advocating for existing teams and the communities they live in with disability civil rights education, we have the actual training program known as High Plains Service Dogs. If the person does not have an adequate dog already, then we find, throughly test, and procures a candidate dog for a disabled person and then offer all the assistance which we can to assist the person with training their own dog by hands on help and also by teaching the person every thing they might need to know to accomplish that goal, of task training and general training of the dog, and then how to continue to research for further knowledge as time goes on. We have high standards and goals which they must meet to reach graduate status and seek certification badges from us. Our standards exceed those proposed by the International Association of Assistance Dog Partners which is the commonly accepted level of acceptable training for a human canine team.