ICAN
What ICAN stands for.
What is 'Indiana Canine Assistant Network'?
This cue is a very common and easy method to refocus or reset a SDiT (so long as they are under threshold)...volunteers just need to watch out for a tongue!
What is touch?
This federal law (passed in 1990) protects service animals' public access rights.
What is the A.D.A (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
This SDiT (whose siblings Iris and Benny have both visited campus) is ICAN at IU's most recent sponsor dog, and only sponsor dog still currently in training.
Who is Oak?
Animals visiting hospitals or care homes to provide comfort are called this (and often confused with ICAN dogs).
ICAN was founded in this year:
What is 2001?
Per ICAN's 2025 update, volunteers would use this cue to ask a SDiT to enter a car.
What is load?
This animal, while rarer, is listed by the ADA as able to undergo training to become a service animal.
What is a miniature horse?
This ICAN SDiT likes to sit backwards on stairs
Who is Wick?
This type of animal provides companionship/comfort through their presence but is not trained to perform disability-related tasks.
What is an emotional-support animal (ESA)?
ICAN works with incarcerated handlers from these THREE Indiana prisons to train their dogs!
What are:
-Pendleton Correctional Facility
-Correctional Industrial Facility
-Indiana Women's Prison
A working, non-*CUE* walk can be helpful for meeting your dog where they're at and working to build up expectations/duration while loose-leash walking!
What is this way?
This is the approximate cost for ICAN to raise and train one service dog.
What is $32,000?
This (since-released) ICAN dog has been on campus 2x and is the father to ICAN SDiT Kacey, who visited a couple of meetings with Bloomington volunteer Emma this year!
Who is Buck?
This kind of service dog is trained in tasks such as:
-detecting changes in heart rate, scent, etc. before a medical episode happens
-notifying through pawing/nudging/etc.
(HINT: ICAN used to train a subset of this dog!)
What is a medical alert dog?
This individual is ICAN's breeding & medical manager.
Who is Moe Kiley?
This cue can be very helpful for practicing and building up duration during body handling!
What is roll?
This campus environment would be one volunteers are NOT permitted to bring a furlough dog to.
What is a lab/research floor (ex: 4th floor of the bio building)?
This (previous ICAN SDiT) dog is now Julie's pet dog!
Who is Jack?
This type of service dog might learn the following tasks:
-bracing while walking, stairs, or loss of balance
-pushing button to open doors
-helping handler with position shifts/transitions
What is a mobility assistance dog?
This is what ICAN went by and originally focused on during its early years.
What is the Indiana Canine Assistant & Adolescent Network?
ICAN originally focused on teenagers (at-risk youth, incarcerated adolescents, and those with disabilities), before realizing their bigger need was to experience the love and healing a puppy brings :)
This method of training, demonstrated by Julie Mathias during March 6's furlough meeting, is used to begin developing new cues/behaviors
What is shaping?
Business or restaraunt owners may not ask for this, even if offered by the individual handling a service dog.
What is certification/registration?
This since-transferred SDiT is the sweetest, sniffliest, cuddliest, cutest, smartest, and quite objectively best dog to ever grace the IU Bloomington campus.
Who is Ozzie?
This type of service dog might be trained in the following tasks:
-lay across handler to provide deep pressure therapy
-interrupt disassociation periods/nightmares/PTSD flashbacks
-retrieve/deliver medications and water
What is a psychiatric assistance dog?