Your Service Dog Inc was founded by Lelah Sullivan who is an experienced Dog Trainer and certified Life Coach. She trained dogs for a variety of purposes for over 50 years, but then began to specialize in Service Dogs, and her mission has since been coaching owners on how train their own Service Dogs and to bring their canine Service Dog Partners to a higher standard of excellence.
Lelah spent many years donating nearly all her resources of both time and money to the vision of helping people to acquire their own Service Dogs to assist with overcoming the challenges faced as a result of their disabilities.
Service Dogs were trained and donated to individuals who were not able to train their own Service Dog, but due to the time and effort required to fully train a Service Dog, one trainer alone can not even begin to fill the huge need. Still, a number of lives were changed for the better, and there is no way to measure that priceless gift!
Being a dog trainer, and learning that the ADA law allows a person to train his or her own Service Dog, our founder focused much effort into teaching people how to train their own Service Dogs.
Training their own dogs allowed more people to get the help they needed sooner, without waiting for a Service Dog to be trained for them. People are often on waiting lists for years, because there are not nearly enough pre-trained dogs in presently existing training facilities to fill the need for Service Dogs. Even if everyone could afford to pay the (usually very high) price of a fully trained Service Dog, there are not enough to go around.
Although teaching people to train their own Service Dogs was able to provide help to more people, there was still a limit to the number of students which our founder was able to coach personally herself.
It was very discouraging to see the great need and be limited due to lack of time, money and other resources.
It was suggested that perhaps forming a non-profit would be the way to go, so that with more people helping, more people could be helped – because as they say, “Many hands make light work!”
Of course, forming and maintaining a nonprofit is not easy to do either, but with perseverance and much hard work, we were able to make Lelah’s dream a reality and now YSDI is a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Tax Exempt Organization!
We are now in the process of developing a variety of programs dedicated to enhancing the Quality of life for people with disabilities by helping them to train a Full Potential Service Dog Partner to perform to his or her full potential in order to provide superior Canine Assistance as well as providing services to Service Dog handlers to help the Handler attain their full human potential utilizing Canine Assistance and we rely solely on donations and grants to fund our operation.
We plan to carry on her life mission, multiplied many times over (even after she can no longer personally contribute) so that her dream can live on and continue to provide a new lease on life to many who might otherwise be without hope.
This website contains information about our organization, and provide details about the services and resources we offer regarding Service Dogs. We want to help people with disabilities reach their full human potential and see the intellectual potential of service animals, so that people may ponder and realize the great potential of our Canine Assistance Animals.
Your Service Dog Inc was founded by Lelah Sullivan who is an experienced Dog Trainer and certified Life Coach. She trained dogs for a variety of purposes for over 40 years, but then began to specialize in Service Dogs, and her mission has since been coaching owners on how train their own Service Dogs and to bring their canine Service Dog Partners to a higher standard of excellence.
Your Service Dog Inc noprofit 501c3 is very proud to announce that we have achieved the Gold Seal of Transparency on guidestar.org
