Courageous Companions provides Military Service Men and Women, Veterans and First Responders diagnosed with an operational stress injury to be trained with a Service Dog. These dogs are able to minimize the individual’s functional limitations resulting from their injury. Courageous Companions is volunteer run and governed by a board of directors, most of whom have ties to the Canadian Armed Forces or First Responders.

Each Service Dog undertakes specialized training to provide for the needs of the individual for whom they are being trained. The two are then trained together to become a service dog team. Examples of what a Service Dog could provide a Veteran include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Arousal from fear paralysis

• Wakening from nightmares

• Prevention or combating of emotional overload

• Assisting to find an exit

• Home sweep checks

• Helping to achieve calmness through personal space expansion. 

• Furthermore, the Service Dog can be trained for additional tasks if the individual has other service injuries requiring aid.

Your donation will go directly to improving our quality of life by providing us with specially trained companions, specifically chosen to help reduce the effects of our post-traumatic stress injury.

Food and drinks available for great prices. 

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