Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) - Serving persons with disabilities, veterans, youth, and the community throughout Minnesota

Welcome!

Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Savage, Minnesota that provides highly trained assistance dogs to persons with disabilities.

Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs primarily focuses on training service dogs for people with physical mobility disabilities. Many are also trained as Diabetic Alert dogs.

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Our Mission

To enrich the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with exceptionally skilled assistance dogs; To utilize the power of the human-canine bond as a therapeutic, educational, healing tool.

Our Strategy

We accomplish this through educational and vocational training programs which teach students, prison inmates, veterans, and others to train the assistance dogs for placement.

Our Vision

To enable persons with disabilities to lead more independent, self-reliant, and fulfilling lives with the assistance of a canine partner.

WANTED: Life Partners!

Do you know someone who would benefit from a partnership with a PawPADs Assistance Dog?

PawPADs is accepting applications for partners for some of our Service Dogs scheduled to be placed over the next several months. Have them check out the PawPADs "Applying for an Assistance Dog" page

The process takes awhile and the wait can be as long as 2 years, so have them get started now!

You probably already know what a difference a Service dog can make in someone's life: the help in daily tasks and living; the independence, and self-reliance enabled by the dog, that people without disabilities react less negatively toward those with disabilities when accompanied by service dogs.

But, did you know that there is substantial economic, as well as psychological and social benefits when people with major disabilities were partnered with service dogs?

Costs per week for paid assistance can be decreased by up to 68%. Allowing for the cost of training and maintaining the dogs, this could result in an estimated net savings of $55,000 to $92,000 per person in eight years (estimated service period of a dog)! Thats no small change.₁

¹(Mader and Hart, 1989; Eddy et al., 1988; Valentine et al., 1993).

PawPADs teams with the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation to recognize our most outstanding volunteers.

America and PawPADs has a proud history of volunteer service. Our volunteers are working to meet the needs of the disabled community by doing all the "stuff" needed to raise a cute puppy to be ready some day to be a partnered Assistance Dog. PawPADs depends on volunteers to help accomplish the work of raising and training these amazing canines. We believe that it truly "takes a village" to raise a service dog!

In recognition of these outstanding achievements, PawPADs is proud to announce the availability of the PRESIDENT'S VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD, a prestigious national honor offered in recognition of volunteer commitment.



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