Canine Companions for Independence
Exceptional Dogs for Exceptional People
Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships.
Imagine not being able to open a door. Answer the phone. Hear a fire alarm. Or even pick up a pencil. Think what it would be like to have people stare of you because you are in a wheelchair. Or feel isolated and along because you are "different". These are the kinds of challenges many people with disabilities face daily.
Put a CCI Canine Companion in the picture, and everything changes. Thanks to the physical tasks the Canine Companion performs, lives are suddenly filled with a new promise and potential.
There are 4 types of CCI dogs:
Service Dogs: They assist adults with physical disabilities by preforming daily tasks.
Hearing Dogs: They alert the deaf and hard of hearing to important sounds.
Facility Dogs: This dogs work with a professional in a visitation, education or health care setting.
Skilled Companions: These dogs enhance independence for children and adults with physical, cognitive and developmental disabilities.
The most advance technology capable of transforming the lives of people with disabilities has a cold nose and a warm heart.
Contact CCI
1-800-BARkK (2275)
Sunny
I attended Team Training at Oceanside, CA. for the first 2 weeks of August. Those are really long weeks but are needed to ensure a proper match is made by CCI. I graduated on August 12, 2011 with my successor service dog, Sunny. She is a yellow Lab cross, female who is small but a great little worker and wheel chair puller!
Ellie
My service dog Ellie passed away on Jan. 12,2011
She had inoperatable nasal cancer. I miss her more than words can express.
Her wings were under her working vest
Now in heaven with God to rest
My angel Ellie
7-6-2003 1-12-2011
