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Support Healing through Service Dogs for Veterans
Sign in support of the Dog Training Therapy Act!
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 5,736
Sponsored by: The Veterans Site
For many veterans, it can be hard to return to normal life, performing daily activities, connecting with others, or managing stress of what they've been through.
Service dogs can add assistance and joy to a veteran's life. In addition, helping train a service dog can enhance a veteran's experience back at home and help him or her manage PTSD.
Tony Baker, Senior Policy Advisor at Office of Congresswoman Betty Sutton, contacted the Veterans Site to provide an update on legislation that would help veterans get their lives back.
The Dog Training Therapy Act would direct the VA to carry out a pilot program to help train service dogs for veterans in need of therapeutic care for post-deployment mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. This legislation is necessary in providing veterans with alternative care that can be integral to their recovery.
Sign in support of the Dog Training Therapy Act today!
Dear Congresswoman Betty Sutton:
Recently, one of your advisors contacted the Veterans Site to give an update on current legislation aimed at taking care of veterans when they return home from service.
It's no secret that many of our dedicated soldiers are coming home with the wounds of war — depression, combat flashbacks, and PTSD. Often, coming home from battle can mean returning to another, more perilous war at home — a war inside the mind, and one that cannot be won without help from outside sources.
That's why the Dog Training Therapy Act is so important. This piece of legislation would direct the VA to carry out a pilot program to help train service dogs for veterans in need of therapeutic care for post-deployment mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
With over 6,000 veterans committing suicide each year — the number one cause of death for our veterans today — this therapy funding is necessary.
Thank you for advocating on behalf of our veterans. I hope you will fight hard for the passage of the Dog Training Therapy Act.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 22, 2013
mandy ashe
May 21, 2013
Diane Lee-Smith
May 21, 2013
Angie Heath
May 21, 2013
Luche La Grandier + Dion
I've seen this project first hand and it does work. Give it a chance.
May 20, 2013
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May 20, 2013
josie mahfouz
May 20, 2013
Lianna Philip
May 20, 2013
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Sign this bill dogs are very comforting to veterans who suffer from PTSD
May 20, 2013
Iris Mergner
May 20, 2013
Ortwin Mergner
May 20, 2013
Angela Burtis
Our Veterans deserve our very best!
May 20, 2013
julie carr
glad to help!
May 20, 2013
Michael Gevedon
As a father of a vet who suffers with PTSD I ask you to consider this
May 19, 2013
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I have friends in Arizona that have service dogs for PTSD. Best idea for our heroes. Give them one to sit with them in silence; good or sad. To enjoy simple beauty in a world, where they've survived things most of us will lucky never have to endure.
May 19, 2013
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May 19, 2013
m hughes
May 19, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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ALL OUR ACTION IS NEEDED IF THIS PROGRAM IS TO SUCCEED! I SUPPORT WHOLE HEARTEDLY THIS WORK!
May 18, 2013
Jackie Newcomb
This is a great program, please support it. Our Veterans need all the help they can get!
May 18, 2013
Kathryn Newman
Such a wonderful way of showing our love and support for our heroes! Please put this into action. Thank you.
May 18, 2013
Brad Aldrich
May 18, 2013
debbie Gilbert
May 18, 2013
Leslie Russo
May 18, 2013
Ray McDonald
May 17, 2013
Danielle McDaniel
May 17, 2013
Shawn McDaniel
May 17, 2013
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May 17, 2013
Jean Cassup
PTSD is real and so should the therapy for it be.
May 17, 2013
Rob S
A dog is a person's best friend.
May 17, 2013
Anna Undebeck
May 16, 2013
Lonie Miesner
May 16, 2013
Jeanne Young
Of all the help mentally/emotionally wounded veterans could be given, I truly believe that service dogs are among the most effective and cost efficient
May 16, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 16, 2013
Dennis Herman
May 16, 2013
celine duburg anchen
May 16, 2013
Maria Schulz
May 16, 2013
phyllis sanford
May 16, 2013
Sofie Forsberg
May 16, 2013
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May 16, 2013
nancy currey
This is a wonderful idea!!
May 16, 2013
Jay Rose
May 16, 2013
Maggie Fenske
May 16, 2013
Norbert Habermann
May 16, 2013
barbara ehrlich
May 16, 2013
laurie moschetto
May 16, 2013
jessica kirby
May 16, 2013
Roger Mauller
May 15, 2013
Helen Martorana
May 15, 2013
Margo Salone
