Fairfax Resident Graduates With Service Dog, Granite

PRINCETON, Mass.- NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans announced recently that TJ Bland, of Fairfax, has been matched with service dog, Granite.

Granite was trained at a New England correctional facility as part of the NEADS Prison PUP Partnership. Bland spent nearly two weeks on the NEADS campus learning how to work with the new assistance dog and becoming fast friends.

Bland and Granite will join 13 other teams in graduating at the Four Points Sheraton in Leominster, Mass., on Sunday, June 6, from 3 to 5 p.m.

NEADS assistance dog teams are sponsored by caring and generous individuals, corporations and groups that believe independence is important to people with disabilities. NEADS has numerous opportunities for support and contributions: corporate partnerships, assistance dog sponsorships, assistance dog graduations, planned giving options. For these opportunities, please contact: dlaconti® neads.org ~ 978 422-9064 x21.

NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans is a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization celebrating more than 30 years of helping adults and children who are deaf or physically disabled. Our highly trained canines enable people to live more independently and with a greater degree of mobility.