International Association of Assistance Dog Partners
Assistance Dogs International
Training Standards
Delta's Minimum Standards for Service Dogs is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format (222K)
Assistance Dogs International's minimum standards for member programs*
*Note: these are the minimum training hours with a professional program service dog trainer and do not reflect the amount of training required of an owner-trainer or private trainer who is not extensively experienced with the training of service dogs.
Veterinary assistance
International Association of Assistance Dog Partners (existing members only)
Silver's Fund (Orthodogs Silver Lining Fund for Service Dogs)
List of Veterinary Teaching Hospitals offering discounts for service animals
Charities
Karl's Kids Program, Inc. (a 501(c)(3) charity)
This program, headquartered in Putnam County, Florida, provides educational programs for children and others in several areas including but not limited to fire safety, dog safety, and service dogs. They provide free educational presentations on service animals on request and when resources permit donate goods and services to programs and to individuals with service animals. They're currently running a program through GoodSearch and GoodShop and have pledged all proceeds from these two campaigns for the 2008 year to their Assistance Animal program to generate educational information on Assistance Animals. Each time you use one of these free services, a donation is made to the charity of your choice. To support service animal owners, consider choosing "Karl's Kids Program" as your designated charity.
GoodSearch and GoodShop
These services utilize the popular Yahoo search engine for the searches and many popular shopping venues including eBay and Amazon.com.