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Service dogs and our project in the news

LISTEN TO ONE OF OUR VETERANS TALK ABOUT HIS JOURNEY WITH JEN QUESNEL ON SASKATOON MORNING

Paul de Groot talks about his and his dog Raven's experience with the pilot study on veterans suffering from PTSD and addictions and using that experience to inform a new much larger Health Canada funded study

Photo credit: Bronwyn Edwards

Saskatoon Starphoenix article discussing our team and goals for how service dogs can help veterans living with ptsd and addiction

Out of the dark: U of S research looks at benefit of therapy dogs for veterans

Photo credit: Matt Smith/ Saskatoon Starphoenix

Webinar of gender informed and trauma informed approaches toward service dog work

Colleen Dell and Nancy Pool discuss how Colleen met Anna-Belle and how dogs offer trauma informed approaches to mental health, along with the introduction of gender informed approaches

Photo credit: Colleen Dell

Opportunity for service dog organizations

A 2019 Health Canada-funded project is learning how service dogs can help veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recover from problematic substance use with peer support

We are looking for service dog organizations to get involved!

For more information please contact:

Maryellen Gibson

1-306-966-6917

Email: maryellen.gibson@usask.ca

www.ColleenDell.ca

This project has been approved by the University of Saskatchewan Animal and Human Research Ethics Boards. Ethics number 20170114 & 17-371

Service Dog Research

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Our project

About Us: A PAWSitive Support Project for Veterans with PTSD

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