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KSDS, Inc. (formerly known as Kansas Specialty Dog Service also as Midwest Canine Assistance) is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization promoting the independence and inclusion of individuals with disabilities as fully participating and contributing members of their communities and society.  Currently, assistance dogs help us accomplish this mission.

Incorporated January 10, 1990, KSDS was the first program in either the history of guide dogs or service dogs in America to provide both of these types of canine assistance from within the same facility.

KSDS has provided people with disabilities more than $5 million in product and services since November 1991. As a non-profit organization, KSDS prides itself that 96 cents of every dollar donated goes toward placing assistance dogs.

KSDS follows the guidelines set forth by Assistance Dogs International (ADI) for the minimum standards in training and placing guide, service, and social dogs.  KSDS also abides by its own set of training standards that meet and exceed those of ADI.