Brigadoon Assistance Dogs

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Brigadoon Service Dogs is a 501(c)(3) organization operating in Bellingham, WA for the purpose of acquiring, raising and training service dogs to assist Veterans, children, and adults with developmental and physical disabilities.

Brigadoon also provides local at-risk youth the opportunity to participate in dog care and training. Our youth programs allow a young person to gain confidence and self-esteem, as well as the opportunity to learn valuable life skills such as responsibility, follow-through, anger management, consistency, dependability, patience, leadership, and caregiving.

We work with area middle and high school students who are completing community service requirements. Our programs also include work opportunities for the developmentally disabled in our community in the area of caregiving and grooming, and we make special appearances and presentations for groups in the community who are interested in learning more about service dogs and our programs.

We provide professionally trained service dogs to Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with PTSD/TBI and mobility issues. We have seen the successes and hope to grow our program to provide more service dogs to service members who participate in the Canines and Heroes for Independence (CHI) program. To do this we started a prison dog service program in 2012. We have been at Cedar Creek Correction Center for over six years now. Since starting Cedar Creek, we have added 3 other prison programs! In 2014, we started working with Stafford Creek Correction Center. Here the incarcerated veterans will train dogs for the veterans who have returned from the war. A win-win situation. In 2017, we added Washington Corrections Center. The inmates are both civilian and veteran and help train our dogs for civilian clients. In 2018, we added our fourth prison program, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. These inmates are incarcerated veterans helping to train dogs for our veteran program.