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Take Action: Support Healing through Service Dogs for Veterans
Sign in support of the Dog Training Therapy Act!
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 5,602
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 14, 2013
Cody Cliff
May 14, 2013
Debra Wilson
May 14, 2013
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May 14, 2013
nelson wheatley
dogs have always been a big part of our lives and they have helped us in so many ways and va should get on the ball and help the vets our dogs saved a lot of us in Vietnam and are doing the same today I have ptsd from Vietnam and if it helps do it!
May 13, 2013
Kathleen OBrien
May 13, 2013
Larrie Hoops
May 13, 2013
Megan Campesi
Our troops have fought for us, risked their lives, and everything they have. We must return the favor and help them, when they return. Service dogs can help veterans in therapeutic care and keep their mood up. This is the least we can do.
May 13, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Thank you for advocating on behalf of our veterans. I hope you will fight hard for the passage of the Dog Training Therapy Act. Our Vets deseerve this and every opportunity we can assist in there pursuit of the American Dream.
May 13, 2013
WENDY FISH
Our disabled vets deserve everything they need to make their lives as close to normal as possible.
May 12, 2013
Tina Dunoody
May 12, 2013
Scott Morrissy
May 12, 2013
Judy Derrick
May 12, 2013
cheryl valerio
May 12, 2013
(Name not displayed)
We owe them more than we can give..
May 12, 2013
HELEN CAIN
May 11, 2013
verna Donnelly
May 11, 2013
Megan Dillard
I can relate. Not only is a dog a good listener, but with so many animals in shelters needing good homes, there's nothing better than to have someone to live for, that encourages you to see what God has to show you through their eyes.
May 11, 2013
vickie kingsbury
May 11, 2013
Tori Dickson
May 11, 2013
karen giordano
Hell yes
May 11, 2013
Reba Stewart
As someone who daily wonders whether life is worth the pain and whether or not to pull the pistol from under the pillow and just end it all. I know that the reason i don't is my Bandit. Remember--All gave some. Some gave all.
May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Helen Jackson
After fighting the unknown enemy for our freedom I believe the US armed forces should be grateful to supply our soldiers with an animal to help them adjust to what they endured during their experience
May 10, 2013
Stephanie Aganos
May 10, 2013
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May 9, 2013
Kelly Cordi
May 9, 2013
Elizabeth Wilkinson
May 9, 2013
Michael Dock
I would due a lot better if I have a dog to talk to on my bad day and my very very bad day I have know one to help me with my ptsd now
May 9, 2013
sandra garcia
May 9, 2013
Mary Sprieck
Please, get the Dog Training Therapy Act passed. I have a cousin who spent 2 tours in Vietnam in the late '60's. He has NEVER been the same person since. The program would help him even now and his extended family would welcome him into their homes again.
May 8, 2013
Isabelle Palmer
I have a psychiatric service dog to help me with Depression and Anxiety. She takes such good care of me. These men and women who have given so much for America deserve to receive any and all help to get better.
May 8, 2013
Ashley Miller
May 8, 2013
Shonda Thomas
May 8, 2013
tiffany mcknight
May 7, 2013
gwen warburton
vets needs a dog to help them with PTSD and DEPRSSION SO LETS GIVE THEM ONE.
May 7, 2013
Raul Garcia
May 7, 2013
Jenny Toufas
Dogs love us unconditionally <3
May 7, 2013
Sandra Miller
May 7, 2013
Sue Lewis
May 7, 2013
Robert Avery
May 6, 2013
Evelyn Roby
A pets love can help just by being
May 6, 2013
Ruth Overcash
May 6, 2013
blanche goujon
May 6, 2013
steven bibb
May 6, 2013
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May 6, 2013
Joyce Beyer
The dogs have served well & deserve our help!
May 5, 2013
Charlotte de Marigny
May 5, 2013
Angela Jensen
May 5, 2013
Kevin Kenger
May 5, 2013
Pat Souders
TSgt USAF retired 1972
