Founded in 2004, Working Animals Giving Service for Kids (W.A.G.S. 4 Kids) is dedicated to providing mobility, autism, & psychiatric service dogs for children throughout 35 counties of northeast and central Ohio utilizing an award-winning Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. All of the W.A.G.S. 4 Kids service dogs are currently trained at Grafton (GCI), Richland (RICI), & Mansfield (MANCI) Correctional Institutions where inmates work with each of 23 dogs always in the program. Each dog provides therapeutic, task, emotional, and physical support for children with disabilities and their families. The work of the inmate trainers is guided by the professional training staff of W.A.G.S. and each placement family receives in home transition training and ongoing training support.