INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Canine Assistant Network (ICAN) will partner its 100th service dog with a client on June 21. Other service dogs will be placed with clients living with post traumatic stress disorder, diabetes, cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or autism will receive a service dog to provide them mobility assistance (walking, wheelchair or balance), diabetic alert to low blood sugar or autism assistance. Two service dogs will be placed in a professional facility; one with a prosecuting attorney to assist in forensic interviews of children and adults who have been physically or sexually abused, while another dog will be going to an Occupational Therapist at a rehabilitation hospital to help assist patients during physical or occupational therapy.
Eight dogs will be placed with clients during a “graduation ceremony” that will be held at the Indiana Women’s Prison (IWP) . Tony, Festus, Gracie, Makenna, Maude, Lark, Smitty and Sally are completing their two-year training period and will now begin their lives as full-time service dogs.