New Tricks: Training service dogs helps veterans heal
Volume
28
/ Issue 49
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The nonprofit Warrior Canine Connection is a community service option for Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court. In the program, veterans with substance use and mental health issues help to train service dogs for other veterans — and this helps with their own healing.
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