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Mission
The Louisiana State University Service-Dog Training and Education Program, known as STEP@LSU for short, is a advocacy and service organization that focuses on educating the community, promoting service dog/disability awareness, and training service dogs for people with disabilities. This Registered Student Organization allows students the opportunity to raise and train future service dogs, fundraise for the club, educate others, and establish a community on campus/in Baton Rouge.

We train our future service dogs in conjunction with Canine Companions, a non-profit organization that provides trained service dogs to people with disabilities at no cost. The organization provides service dogs to adults, children, and veterans with disabilities, and facility dogs to professionals working in healthcare, criminal justice, and educational settings. STEP@LSU puppies represent both Canine Companions and LSU, wearing yellow and blue around our LSU campus and Baton Rouge community. It is of the highest importance that we hold our puppies and their raisers to high standards, always making sure our future service dogs are loved, well cared for, and on their best behavior.

Membership Benefits
The support you will find in your fellow students, the ability to fundraise to support your puppy raisers and club projects, bringing the calming presence of a Canine Companions puppy to your campus, being part of a community that serves people with disabilities from all backgrounds, building life-long relationships both within your club and within Canine Companions.