Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) - Serving persons with disabilities, Veterans, Youth, and the community throughout Minnesota and the mid-west

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

PawPADs' Vision: To enrich the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with exceptionally skilled assistance dogs; enabling them to lead more independent, self-reliant, and fulfilling lives. Our innovative training programs are designed to create powerful, life-enhancing experiences through working with dogs - as the very act of working with, being around and training these dogs can be therapeutic and life-altering in profound ways.

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." Mahatma Gandhi

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Paw Corps

The Dogs who come when called...for the Veterans who went when asked..._©

Working with veterans suffering from PTSD as they train assistance dogs for veterans facing life with new physical disabilities.

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Project YES!

Project YES!
(Youth Enrichment Services)

Project YES! helps "youth-at-risk" and individuals with disabilities share in the challenges of facing our world today.

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S.I.T. Program

Social Interaction Therapy (S.I.T.) Program

The S.I.T. Program allows the community, particularly our Senior residents, to help pet and socialize our puppies.

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Support our Efforts

As with most nonprofit organizations, we are in great need for financial support -- please consider making PawPADs one of your top organizations to support in 2010. All Financial Donations assist our programs in covering overhead costs, purchasing food and vet services, and assisting in operating and expanding our Programs. Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs , Inc. is a 501c3 charitable organization and all contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.

��Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) facilitates the power of the human-canine bond, and enhances the lives of others, through the process of training assistance dogs and the outcome of placing them with people with disabilities.��