One thing I also learned was that having a service dog helped reduce the medication they required for PTSD. It also helped them.... As we know, they are costly to train, but the advantage at the end of it is the money we're saving, both on health care and on prescriptions, and the benefit to the individual of not having to absorb all these medications when they have a service dog or therapy dog.
One example that was given to me was that of a veteran who was on suicide watch. He would have horrible nightmares about what happened. The dogs were able to wake him up and calm him down. Do you think that would be beneficial?