Carolina Canines for Service

By Ms. Karen V Nicholson (Community Covenant News)March 4, 2010

Carolina Canines for Service (CCFS) is a non-profit health and human services organization that provides people with disabilities quality trained service dogs. In 2008, CCFS launched a national pilot program, Carolina Canines for Veterans, to assist wounded warriors with a quality trained service dog, using military prisoners to train the dogs rescued from local shelters. Wounded warriors learn to work with their dog either in North Carolina or where the service member lives dependent on the circumstances. Service dogs are provided at no cost to the wounded warrior.