Canine Partners for Life
P.O. Box 170
Cochranville, PA 19330
610-896-4902
Contact: Charlottie Eoppolo
ceoppolo@k94life.org
www.k94life.org

CPL is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting independence among disabled individuals and increasing their quality of life through a unique pairing of canines and humans. Canine Partners for Life is one of a few service organizations that will place a dog with a child under the age of 18 and is one of only five organizations in the world that place seizure alert dogs. Our recipients come from all walks of life and have a wide variety of physical disabilities including muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injuries, seizure disorders and more. The one thing they all have in common is a drive to become more independent and a commitment to do what is necessary to have an assistance dog as their partner. Each dog is trained to meet the specific needs of individual recipients. Canine Partners for Life strives to change our recipients' lives by opening up a whole new world where they are self-sufficient and can obtain personal achievement. At CPL, our training represents a creative and innovative approach to meet the needs of disabled individuals, their families, their caretakers, their friends and the community at large.

The mission of Carolina Canines for Service, Inc. is to empower people with disabilities to achieve greater independence and enhanced quality of life through the services of specially trained dogs. Carolina Canines for Service Inc. (CCFS) was co-founded by Rick Hairston on December 1, 1996 in Wilmington, North Carolina. The program is incorporated as a non-profit organization in the state of North Carolina, and is recognized by the IRS as a 501 (c) 3 federal tax-exempt charitable organization. CCFS is committed to providing quality-trained services dogs at no cost to individuals with disabilities. CCFS is a biblically based program that has trained and placed 17 service dogs for people with disabilities from North Carolina to Florida. Our dogs; open doors, retrieve dropped items, turn on/off light switches, pull wheelchairs, load a washing machine, unload the dryer, assist during and after a seizure, rise for bank transactions, and provide unconditional love for their human partner. CCFS has also trained and certified 75 Animal Assisted Therapy Teams in the Carolinas. The organization as a whole, contributes almost 1200 volunteer hours per month to their communities.

Guiding Eyes for the Blind (GEB), founded in 1954, is an independent 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and is considered one of the leading guide dog training schools in the world. Its Headquarters and Training Center is in Yorktown Heights and its world renowned Breeding Center is in Patterson, both in New York. GEB is dedicated to enriching the lives of blind and visually impaired men and women by providing them with the freedom to travel safely with the assistance of professionally trained Guiding Eyes dogs. Thereby graduates are assured greater independence, dignity and new horizons of opportunity.

KSDS, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the independence and inclusion of people with disabilities as fully participating and contributing members of their communities and society through the training and placement of assistance dogs. Guide dogs, trained to assist people with blindness and visual impairments, provide help with mobility in travel. They guide their partner safely around obstacles and across streets as well as locate doors, chairs, counters, and more. Service dogs, trained to assist people with physical impairments, pull wheelchairs, retrieve articles, provide balance, switch lights on/off, open doors and more. Labrador and golden retrievers begin training at 8 weeks of age and are ready for placement at approximately 2 years of age. KSDS does not place age restrictions on people applying for canine assistance. The dog's skill tasks can provide these individuals much more independence in all aspects of life. People with disabilities experience an enhanced ability in school, on the job, and in their homes through the love and devotion of a KSDS assistance dog.

Founded in 1997 by Karen Brown, New Life Mobility Assistance Dogs strives to reach people with mobility limitations and help them become more independent with the help of an Assistance Dog. NLMAD incorporated in March of 2000 and attained their 501(c)(3) status in October of the same year. In addition to graduating twenty-nine dog/client teams since their inception, NLMAD has continued to refine it programs and services in the areas of shelter dog screening, recipient selection, puppy raiser program, Assistance Dog training, recipient training and follow-up training. Their humanitarian organization is recognized for improving the quality of life of disabled people and for rescuing shelter dogs for use in their program.