I was fortunate enough to be at the ribbon cutting ceremony of CCI's new Veteran's Training Building. I was representing the Yahoo Employe Foundation who funded $375k for the building!
The building is beautiful and designed to be calming for the veterans. They have enough room to train 5 or 6 veterans at a time which is a good size for their needs.
We got to hear about how a 2 week team training session works and "test drive" some dogs!
This is "Fluffy" a carpet roll the they use to get people used to giving commands to dogs. Some of the folks got to try out commands on "Fluffy" and then move to real dogs.
A couple of trainers spoke about how they train dogs for Veteran's needs and then the VA spoke about the study they have done with CCI to determine if dogs are helpful to Veterans with PTSD - the answer is yes! And lastly two veterans spoke about how their dogs help them everyday. Their stories were so impactful and it made me so proud to support this wonderful organization.
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