ICAN Placement Types
ICAN places this type of dog to help people who have difficulty moving or using limbs.
What is a mobility assistance dog?
The dog behavior requested by the handler (verbal, gesture, or environmental) is called this.
What is a cue?
Veterans with these kinds of service-related conditions may qualify for the psychiatric service dog program.
What are PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST)?
ICAN’s dogs are often bred as purebred or crosses of these two breeds.
What are Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers?
Three volunteer roles that work directly with the dogs.
What are litter sitters, puppy raisers, furlough volunteers? (other answers include whelping host/helpers, litter host)
This ICAN placement works with professionals (in schools, hospitals, courtrooms) and is integrated into medical or educational objectives.
What is a facility dog?
A dog must be able to do this to be considered a service dog by the ADA.
What is a task?
ICAN’s psychiatric service dogs are only placed for this client group. (who and where)
Who are military Veterans in Fort Wayne and 10 surrounding counties?
A large portion of ICAN dog training occurs in these three institutions.
What are Indiana Women’s Prison (IWP), Pendleton Correctional Facility (PCF), and Correctional Industrial Facility (CIF).
The first step to becoming an ICAN volunteer.
What is Foundations class?
This dog can be a life-line for a Veteran facing service-related trauma.
What is a Psychiatric Service Dog?
One task psychiatric service dogs may perform to help with nightmares or flashbacks and a cue they may use to do this.
What is wake alert or interrupt flashbacks/what is a nudge?
Clients who receive mobility or facility dogs typically pay this placement fee (non-Veterans).
What is $2,900?
The person primarily responsible for a dog’s training schedule and the dog’s welfare.
Who is the incarcerated handler?
Volunteers help spread ICAN’s message in the community by doing this.
What is Community Engagement or Outreach?
This type of ICAN dog lives in a client’s home and helps with tasks around the house but does not have public access under ADA.
What is an in-home skilled companion?
Facility dogs are often trained to do this calming technique which may require them to lay across a person’s body.
What is deep pressure therapy (DPT)?
The average time a person seeking a service dog will have to wait.
What is 20 months.
The number of total incarcerated trainers that have participated in ICAN since the beginning of the prison program.
What is over 300 incarcerated trainers?
ICAN’s annual gala-style fundraiser involving dogs is called this.
What is Wine & Wags?
ICAN currently does not place dogs for these three conditions.
What is autism assist, Seizure Alert or Diabetic alert. (other answers include vision, auditory, allergies, developmental or cognitive disabilities
An in-home skilled companion dog can do these tasks to help in emergency situations. (name two)
What is push a medical alert button, retrieve a phone, retrieve medication, or find help?
This ICAN trained dog does NOT have Public Access.
What are in home skilled companions or Facility dogs?
These are the three main training techniques ICAN uses to teach new behaviors in dogs.
What is shaping, capturing, and luring?
This Indiana law allows service dogs in training to have public access.
What is Indiana Code 16-32-3-2?