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Change a Life. Join the Pack.

Every wagging tail starts with someone willing to step forward. Whether you give your time, your resources, or your voice, you become part of the mission built on hope, healing, independence, and connection.

From hands-on support to behind-the-scenes generosity, there are many ways to get involved:

  • Partner with CHAMP to raise a future CHAMP dog
  • Partner with CHAMP to help whelp a new litter of service dogs
  • Become a Therapy Team and strengthen community impact
  • Volunteer and lend your time and talents to support programs and events
  • Donate to help provide training, resources, and ongoing care for working dogs
  • Attend events and experience the power of assistance and therapy dogs in action
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Close-up of a golden retriever puppy wearing a green CHAMP Assistance Dogs training vest.
Male and female volunteers wearing CHAMP Assistance Dogs shirts walking a golden retriever on a leash through a care facility corridor.
A speaker addresses an audience from a podium on a stage while a line of CHAMP Assistance Dogs volunteers and handlers stand proudly with their dogs during a formal presentation event.

Find Your Place in the Pack

At CHAMP, impact doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens through community. Through people who give their time, share their resources, open their doors, and believe in the power of dogs to connect, comfort, and create change.

Each opportunity plays a vital role in helping dogs become confident, capable partners and in bringing joy to the people and places they serve.

Life in the Pack. Volunteers in Action.

Two female volunteers wearing purple CHAMP shirts stand in a bright healthcare facility lobby with two therapy dogs—a fluffy light Golden Retriever and a dark poodle mix named Tucker wearing a purple bandana.
Three smiling individuals pose together at a formal gala event with a large, light-colored standard poodle wearing a CHAMP Assistance Dogs vest lying down calmly in the foreground.
A woman wearing a purple CHAMP shirt stands next to a yellow Labrador retriever service dog wearing a green vest as a crouched man wearing a white cap gently pets the dog during an outdoor community event.
A volunteer wearing a green CHAMP apron holds a glass bowl filled with wine corks for a guest at a "Wine Pull" fundraising station during the Champ's Best Friend Gala.
A yellow Labrador retriever wearing a green CHAMP vest stands on a leash as a woman in a blue polo shirt smiles and pets its head during an outdoor community event.
Two CHAMP Assistance Dogs volunteers smile behind a display table with an informational tri-fold board, donation jars, and merchandise at a well-lit community public market or fair.
A smiling man wearing a purple CHAMP Assistance Dogs t-shirt kneels next to a brindle dog wearing a green harness inside a large indoor convention or community event hall.
A smiling CHAMP therapy dog team volunteer, wearing a green apron with a name tag that reads "Lauren & Harry," holds a Pembroke Welsh Corgi wearing a head halter next to a smiling woman in a black dress at a gala.

Every dog changes a life. Every gift makes it possible.

Your support helps CHAMP raise, train, and place highly skilled assistance and therapy dogs— transforming lives across the St. Louis region.

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