What is ADI Accreditation?
Part of the mission of Assistance Dogs International (ADI) is to establish standards and guidelines for it members. By doing this, ADI is continually striving to improve the entire Assistance Dog industry in order to ensure that dogs are treated humanely, clients are treated with respect and dignity, and training is professional and of the highest standards Assistance Dog users trust their lives and safety to their dogs, so everything related to the training of both the dogs an people must meet extraordinary criteria. Over several years, members of ADI worked on a procedure for accreditation of member programs and developed an accreditation manual to be used to evaluate Assistance Dog programs to see whether or not they were meeting the high standards needed to train and place these special dogs. The standards evaluated in the ADI accreditation process include virtually every aspect of properly running a program. Areas evaluated include: safety and cleanliness of the training facility,
