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| Last updated on May 13, 2008 |
The mission of the Search Dog Foundation is to produce the most highly trained canine disaster search teams in the nation. The job of these teams is to find people buried alive in the wreckage of natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
Description:
The SDF office manages Canine Recruitment and Lifetime Care through our Canine Manager, track our Search Team milestones and training through our Program Manager, manage our Family of Supporters (donors, grants and sponsors), the Guardian Endowment fund and State and National Giving Campaigns through our Development Department.
We produce our annual report, Quest, and the Bark Alert newsletter from our offices.
The entire Foundation is run through the Ojai office.
History:
SDF was founded in 1995 by retired schoolteacher, Wilma Melville. In 1995, Wilma and her Advanced-Certified search dog were deployed to the site of the Oklahoma City bombing. Only one survivor was found by a dog, and it was clear that the country had a severe shortage of Canine Disaster Search Teams. Determined to do something about this alarming gap in our national disaster response network, Wilma founded the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation and designed a program based on the recruitment of rescued dogs and on a streamlined, professional training methodology. Her goal was to improve the way search dogs were chosen, trained, and to partner them with firefighters and other first responders.
In 1996, the Search Dog Foundation developed a model for Canine Disaster Search; recruiting rescued dogs, pairing them iwith firefighters and giving them professional ongoing training.
Contact person: Sharon Cromartie, Operations Manager, (phone), (email)
Office fax number: (805) 640-1848
Address:
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206 N. Signal St. Suite R
Ojai, CA 93023
(See a map) |
Web Site: http://www.searchdogfoundation.org
Directions:
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Take the 33 into Ojai. Turn left if going east, right if going west onto Signal St. We are two blocks north of Ojai Ave.
Nearest Bus Stop: 16, 3 minute walk |
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