I will wrap it up.
The ADI standards were based on what our veterans told us. They weren't just pulled out of the air. It took eight years to bring those standards from best practices within the assistance dog industry to standards.
The past three years of those eight years is when we started the standard work. I just want to indicate that when you do standards or when you do anything like that, it's not always all about the dogs. This was a new realm for us, so we added two mental health professionals. One was a doctor who worked only with veterans with PTSD. The other, Dr. Crosson, was a psychiatric social worker who worked with PTSD. By adding them to the group of trainers and ADI program heads, we came up with super standards.
They've been implemented for three years now. Right now, our international standard committee is looking at those standards to make sure that we were on the right path. We really did a good job with those. They've helped our VA, which only provides benefits to those who have ADI or IGDF dogs. Our VA in the United States does not want to be the one to determine if a dog is a service dog and if it's doing its job.
They also are shared with the airlines in North America and Canada. We've been working on that for a long time, so that they have an understanding of what a well-trained service dog does and what training a veteran has had to receive this dog.
My hope is that if you are thinking of making standards, you definitely use the ADI standards.