Volunteers

PTSD is a mental health disorder that occurs after someone witnesses or experiences a life-threatening event such as combat or a sexual assault

Without their constant support our mission would be nearly impossible to achieve. PPH volunteers donate their time, talents and hard work helping us to accomplish everything possible when it [...]

Since only 2016, Paws for Purple Hearts Menlo Park has had 168 Warriors participate in Canine-Assisted Warrior Therapy®️, totaling over 1,977 hours! Our Menlo Park location is on the VA [...]

Paws for Purple Hearts originally began as a pilot program in association with Bergin College of Canine Studies in 2006. What started as a small program in the Menlo Park VA has since blossomed [...]

This week, our San Antonio team packed up the office and took a field trip to support a very special bunch of people- Veterans who were taking part in the Wounded Warrior Project®’s Warrior [...]

. We would like to thank Department President Loretta Marsh and The American Legion Auxiliary for raising over $25,000 to support our work to provide our top-notch service dogs and highly [...]

At Paws for Purple Hearts, we work to build partnerships with different organizations who share our focus of helping this nation’s Veterans and Active Duty Service Members. One of these great [...]

We recently conducted our second volunteer orientation– which included many young students who are out of school for the summer and are eager to help our cause.

Volunteers help Paws for Purple Hearts accomplish our life-saving mission in a wide variety of important and fun ways. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, our team of highly-trained instructors [...]