Assistance Canine Training Services (ACTS)

ACTS - Assistance Canine Training Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit training service dogs for people with mobility disabilities and facility dogs for professionals using animal assisted therapy in their full-time practices or jobs. We are accredited by Assistance Dogs International and a member of Animal Assisted Intervention International. ACTS was founded in 2007 by Dorothy Hyde-Williams in memory of her son Nate who died tragically and unexpectedly in a bicycle accident. The organization still thrives today on the passion that comes from great loss and from believing in something good coming from tragedy. ACTS is proud to have been founded in memory of Nate. As a small organization headquartered in the Mount Washington Valley (North Conway) with a training center at the University of Vermont, ACTS can offer the personal services that is desirable in assistance dog training and placement. Our key volunteers each have many years of experience in dog training and in the servi...