Canine Companions
Southeast Region
Welcome to the South Florida Chapter Website. Our chapter serves the East coast of South Florida. Our membership includes graduates, volunteers, puppy raisers and donors, who are all enthusiastic about supporting the mission of Canine Companions – providing highly trained assistance dogs for people with disabilities, free of charge.
If you’re looking for deeper engagement as a Canine Companions volunteer, we encourage you to get involved with our chapter. The South Florida Chapter is an extension of the Southeast Region, located in Orlando, FL. We work to raise awareness, raise funds recruit new puppy raisers and volunteers and support one another’s work on behalf of the Canine Companions’ mission.
We are a lively network filled with opportunities for social engagement, from puppy classes to fundraisers. Beyond the satisfaction of doing good work for Canine Companions, lifelong friendships are often formed among chapter members. If you are interested in working with our chapter, contact us. We’d love to meet you!
On Friday, March 28, Canine Companions joined San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in an annual celebration of our puppy raising program. This year, clients Ben Carter and Robert Quigley, whose new service dogs were the first puppies raised at San Quentin, joined for the event and brought along their four-legged helpers.
There is shortage of the volunteers that raiser future service dog puppies to help fill the growing need for service dogs as highlighted in a recent article in the New York Times.
