Organizations Filed Purposes:
Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities to restore their freedom to live life.
Assistance to veterans and others with disabilities to live a quality life by helping the individuals learn the necessary skills to train their dogs and then certify as a service dog team.
Service Dog Program - Operation Freedom Paws (OFP) provides services to disabled (veterans, first responders, kids and nonveterans). The program is a minimum of 48 weeks. It includes providing a service dog, training, mental health counseling for the client and their family members. Community outings, group/peer to peer counseling. All training to train the service dog for the individual clients needs. In 2019 supported 403 clients, 32 of which were new, had and active training group of 58.
Kennel Program - Operation Freedom Paws (OFP) operates a 24 by 7 kennel. We pull dogs from shelters and rescues that meet criteria for an OFP service dog program, houses them at the Kennel, until matched and sent home with the client. Trainers and Kennel Staff work on basic training, clients take over advanced training. In addition to dogs in training, OFP offers daycare and boarding at a no cost or reduced cost to First Responders, law enforcement K9s and OFP clients who need medical services where it is unsafe to take the dogs. To cover cost of staff OFP also offers daycare and boarding services to the public. The kennel facility is also used for training and a safe place for clients to come when in crisis. It also operates as a 24-hour hot line for all OFP clients.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Mary Cortani | President & ED | 40 | $79,954 |
| Nicole Martinez | Director | 20 | $18,000 |
| Dennis Mclaughlin | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Diane Jimenez | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
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