Empowering Lives

Our Mission

Our mission is to prevent suicide by carefully evaluating and matching grateful rescue dogs with at-risk veterans, providing them with life-saving service dogs and emotional support animals. We aim to achieve this by offering free resources and affordable personalized coaching to veterans and individuals with disabilities, empowering them to train their own service dogs and fostering bonds that lead to greater independence and emotional well-being.

The Helping Paws Project offers personalized coaching and free resources for service dog self-training, focusing on empowering individuals.

Transforming lives through service dog training.

Led by Coach Meg, a certified dog trainer, we specialize in assisted owner training and service dog coaching via Zoom.

Empowering individuals to train their own service dogs.

Our Journey

Company Evolution

Founded with a passion for helping veterans and those with disabilities, The Helping Paws Project started small, offering training resources and coaching to make a significant impact.

Meet Coach Meg

Megan “Coach Meg” Brooks

Service Dog Trainer and Life Coach

The Helping Paws Project provides resources to empower you to train your own service dog.

Coach Meg developed this unique assisted owner-trained service dog program, The Helping Paws Project, in 2008.

The program offers a comprehensive approach for disabled veterans and other individuals with disabilities who are currently owner-training or interested in training their own service dog.

By promoting reward-based training methods, Coach Meg helps you achieve greater independence by offering endless resources to help find, evaluate, and train your service dog to perform tasks that meet YOUR specific needs.

Take Back Your Life

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