Improving the lives of Veterans. One paw at a time.

Listen to Managing Director of DCD, and Executive Director of Defence Bank Foundation, Leanne Kyle, speak with Military Life about the life-changing and life-saving impact the Defence Community Dogs Program is having for the dogs, inmates, veterans and their families.

  • The Defence Bank Foundation and why they decided to support the DCD program

  • What the DCD program is and how it supports dogs, inmates and Veterans

  • Why the program decided to only use rescue dogs and give them a second chance at life

  • The benefits inmates at correctional facilities gain from helping train the dogs

  • The time, effort and money it takes to train a dog ready for a Veteran

  • Why the dogs have just as much impact on the lives of the Veterans family members as they do on the Veterans lives

  • How the support of the Defence Bank Foundation has resulted in over 50 dogs being trained and homed with Veterans

  • The extensive process to match a dog with a Veteran and their individual needs

  • Why so many Veterans leave getting an assistance dog as a last resort

  • How Defence Bank is further supporting the program by donating even more

  • Why any Veteran living with mental health challenges or PTSD should consider getting an assistance dog

To hear more personal accounts of the impacts of DCD dogs on their Veteran Recipients, visit the Military Life podcast page here, and listen to podcasts 44 and 78.

Thanks to the Defence Bank Foundation

The Defence Bank Foundation is a registered independent charity with DGR status, established to support serving and ex-serving Australian Defence Force members. The Foundation raises funds to meet the costs of the Defence Community Dogs program.