Champs Foundation

Our Mission is to offer a program for handlers with challenges where they can be partnered with a coach and a dog, with a goal of learning to train dogs! Requirement for handlers is that they have been determined to have intellectual disabilities Handlers learn how to communicate with the dog, to teach the dog to do what they asked of him and learn to reward the dog. If the dog doesn’t understand the command the handler now has to figure out why, do it a different way, back up to a step the dog knows, and try a different way of communicating. When the handler and dog are successful there is a lot of smiling, a lot of joy and praise for both the dog and handler. Handlers learn how to communicate, how to be positive and how to interact with a working partner that happens to be fur