C.O.P.E. Service Dogs raises and trains dogs to become partners for people with disabilities.

Through our unique youth program, C.O.P.E. engages students experiencing challenges at high school. Each student is matched with a C.O.P.E. puppy and taught how to train it more than 90 tasks, like: to open doors, turn on lights, retrieve out-of-reach objects. As part of the training, the youth take their C.O.P.E. dogs to elementary schools to help struggling students with reading and math, and they make therapy visits, too.

Volunteer Puppy Raiser families foster the dogs in their homes during their 2-year training period.

At the end of the 2 years, a C.O.P.E. dog is matched with a Life Partner to begin a career as a Service Dog.