registration forms

Fall 2010

Dear Students and Parents:

ADW Fall 2010 Dog Training Program will begin the week of September 6.

Since 1995, elementary, middle and high school students have been learning and helping us train ADW dogs to help people with disabilities. In our classes, students between the ages of 8 and 18 learn some very important and useful leadership skills through working with dogs. Here’s a short list of what students get from this course:

• Dog/Human Relationships: Consistency Builds Trust
• Basic Obedience Training : Use of the Positive
• Dog Behavior in Public: Dog Socialization
• Basic Commands for Assistance Dogs: What Assistance Dogs Do for People with Disabilities
• Differing Ability Awareness Training: Learn About Our Clients
• Building Loving Relationships and Letting Go: Emotional Growth
• Community Service: How We Help Others
• Communication Skills - Clarity, Self Advocacy, Assertiveness

If you have an interest in doing something fun, rewarding and different (or if you want to continue training with us), please look over, fill out and return the ADW Fall Program registration forms along with your payment. Please note that classes are small, and spaces are limited to 8-10 students. We fill classes on a first-come, first-served basis.  Payment is REQUIRED before a space is confirmed.

Please call the ADW office at 505-986-9748 or email info@assistancedogsofthewest.org if you have any questions.

We hope to see you in an ADW dog training class soon.

Santa Fe Fall 2010 Registration Packet

Albuquerque Fall 2010 Registration Packet

Scholarships: Assistance Dogs of the West has limited scholarships for students whose families are in need of financial assistance. Please note that due to lack of funding, ADW scholarship availability is extremely limited. Scholarships are offered, when available, on an as-need basis.  If you would like to request financial aid, please fill out the ADW Scholarship Application.

ADW re-evaluates all scholarship requests and recipients at the beginning of each new session; it is your responsibility to resubmit a new scholarship application prior to the start of each session. Receiving a scholarship during one semester in no way guarantees continued financial assistance in subsequent sessions.