Assistance Canine Training Services is a nonprofit organization based in the Lakes Region and White Mountains of New Hampshire. We raise and train assistance and service dogs for people with disabilities.

Our puppies in training come from our own breeding program and the generosity of other breeders who donate. Most of our puppies are Golden Retrievers and Labs. To learn more about the puppies, click here.

Our puppies are raised by volunteer puppy raisers from eight weeks of age to placement with the client at about two years of age. To learn more about our puppies in training, click here.

Although we try for the highest success rate possible, we do have dogs that due to unique circumstances can not be an assistance dog. We try to find a job for those dogs, but if we can't, we try to find loving homes for them. To learn more about adopting a dog, click here.

Once the puppy is ready to be placed with a client, we try to match the client and the dog together based on many different aspects, including the personalities of both the client and the dog, the client's needs and the dog's needs. This way we create lifelong partnerships. To learn more about requesting an assistance dog, click here.

ACTS is a completely volunteer organization so we are always looking for people to help with many different things. If you are interested in volunteering, whether as a puppy raiser, breeder caretaker, or other options, click here.

ACTS was organized in loving memory of Nathaniel J Williams (1982-2005).