ADW
About ADW
Our Mission
Through educational and vocational programs, Assistance Dogs of the West provides trained assistance dogs to people with disabilities in order to increase self-reliance. We teach students to train dogs to help people.
OUR VISION
- Expand the ADW Program to benefit more people with disabilities
- Teach more students to train more dogs through additional educational and vocational programs in schools, community agencies, rehabilitation facilities and juvenile detention programs
- Increase community awareness of challenges faced by people with disabilities and the value of assistance dogs through public education
OUR STRATEGY
- Grow to 40 Dogs annually
- Manage $500K – $750K (3 year goal) Annual Operating Budget
- New Program Facility – ($3.5M Capital Campaign)
- Build Program Endowment
We intend to maintain the quality of all student training programs, the placement of our dogs with caring, appropriate clients and continuous support to successful client/dog relationships. Our current primary goal is to build the central ADW Training Facility which will house all program management, all our dogs, all student training programs and accommodations for client placement training.
The ADW Capital Campaign is active in support of this goal.