Helppes - Centre for Assistance Dogs ®

http://www.helppes.cz/

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Helppes is a nonprofit organization. This civic association is a centre for special training of canine helpmates for the physically and health disabled. As the only organization in the Czech Republic, it focuses on training of assistance dogs, including guide dogs and canistherapy dogs, and holds the Certificate of the international organization Delta Society. It is the member of the European organization Assistance Dogs Europe, the Czech Union of Training of Assistance Dogs for the Health Impaired, and the Czech Kynologic Federation. Membership in those organizations makes it responsible to observe the internationally acknowledged standards for training of assistance dogs and to the provision of subsequent care to clients and their canine helpmates throughout the time of the dogs' service. Helppes and its trainers have already made and successfully handed over more than 100 guide dogs for the blind and assistance dogs for various types of disabilities. Helppes is the first and the only institution of its kind that trains and hands over signal dogs for deaf clients and for clients with seizure disorders - epileptics, cardiacs and others.  All services for the disabled are provided for free.