Paws4people

The organization is a nonprofit non-stock corporation incorporated in the commonwealth of Virginia on july 6, 1999 with its principal office and operations in wilmington, north carolina. The organization is registered as a foreign corporation in the states of north carolina, west Virginia, California, Georgia, Illinois, and Texas, and in the district of columbia. The organization does business as Paws4people, Paws4people foundation, paws4prisons, and paws4vets. The organization raises, trains, and places service dogs and facility dogs, and provides certification, insurance, and support for each client-assistance dog team or handler-facility dog team for the duration of the team's career. The organization specializes in training customized service dogs for two general groups: children and adolescents with physical, neurological, psychiatric, or emotional disabilities; and veterans and service members with chronic/complex post-traumatic stress disorder (c-ptsd), traumatic brain injuries (tbi), and military sexual trauma (mst). The organization also trains, certifies and places facility dogs with specific individuals who will use the facility dog within his/her profession and/or volunteer activities to provide animal assisted interventions, which are designed to promote improvement in physical, social, emotional, and/or cognitive functioning of the individual(s) involved and in which the handler-facility dog team is an integral part.