Tillis, Blumenthal Lead Bipartisan Legislation to Provide Service Dogs to Eligible Veterans

6/22/2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

CONTACTS:
Adam Webb (Tillis)
Liam McCaffery (Blumenthal)
Abbey Schieffer (Cramer)
Caty Payette (Heinrich)

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the Service Dogs Assisting Veterans (SAVES) Act, bipartisan legislation that would establish a program to award grants to nonprofit organizations to assist them in carrying out programs to provide service dogs to eligible veterans. The legislation builds on the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers (PAWS) for Veterans Therapy Act that was introduced by Senator Tillis and signed into law.

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Bart Sherwood link

8/16/2023 09:14:15

This Act is a duplicate of the PAWS Act, which is being ignored by the Department of Veterans Affairs !!!
The SAVE Act is designed to fail because the Veterans training the Service Dogs will build a bond that will not be transferred to the new Veteran. And why pay for dogs and veterans set up to fail - check with the return of Service Dogs from the Warrior Canine Connection program!!
TADSAW is unique in that it is a Participant Trained Service Dog (PTSD) program - meaning the Veteran is totally involved in the training of their Medical Alert Service Dog and getting their Military Induced Anxiety Depression Syndrome (MIADS) - an Occupation-Related Health Hazard - under control and destigmatizing the medical condition labeled by the Departments of Defense and VA as a mental health/mental illness issue referred to as post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd!!). Fighting Fire with Fire!!!
And TADSAW INC provides this at NO CHARGE to the Veteran or Government!!! It is the responsibility of a non-profit organization to obtain the funds to make the mission be successful.
The TADSAW model has prevented over 1,400 Veteran suicides with the TADSAW Medical Alert Service Dog, and this is an evidence based result called 'PRO - Patient Reported Outcome'.
Please reconsider your support of a program designed to fail but put a lot of money into the hands of an already broke system. The money wiuld be better spent on providing veterinary health insurance for Service Dogs benefitting the Veterans, not organizations.
Service Dog organizations should continue to "Make a Greater Difference" and not a profit.

Tillis, Blumenthal Lead Bipartisan Legislation to Provide Service Dogs to Eligible Veterans

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