The object of the Association Servicehunde til Handicappede (STH) is to train and place service dogs. STH is a non-profit association the objective of which is to help persons with a functional disability by granting specially trained service dogs and assisting with continuous support and guidance to ensure valuable cooperation for the team. STH was established in 1996.

The driving force of the Association is partly a number of voluntary and unpaid host families that make their home and hearts available to a puppy for approx. 12 months to give the future service dog a good foundation for its future career partly a number of private individuals, foundations and enterprises which, by financial sponsorships, feed and equipment, together make it possible to make the dream of training service dogs for handicapped come true.

STH's Articles of Association are available from this link

The Association is represented by a Supervisory Board consisting of:

The day-to-day management of STH as well as training of service dogs is handled by Chief Instructor Lise Lotte Christensen.

Lise Lotte Christensen has been living in USA from 1990 to 1997. In this period, Lise Lotte took a three-year education as service dog instructor at the service dog organisation, CCI, in California. Lise Lotte participated in the training of social, facility and service dogs during her stay in USA.
Since 1997, she has been working as behaviour consultant in Dansk Kennel Klub, where she works, among other things, with the development of training programmes for dogs and their owners, test of the mentality of dogs and many other things.
Every now and then, Lise Lotte is hosting or participating in TV programmes about pets, dogs and dog training (for instance, Dine Dyr (»Your Animals), Hund og Hund i mellem (»Among Dogs), Mit liv - mine hunde (»My life – my dogs), etc.).
Lise Lotte also writes articles about dog behaviour and dog training for the Internet portal www.netdyredoktor.dk – Hundeskolen (the dog school)
In order to secure the operation and the Association in the long term – and also to relieve Lise Lotte Christensen of some work – Lise Lotte and the Supervisory Board has been working on taking in a number of service dog instructor trainees. Three good assistants have been found after long search. These are the two experienced puppy hosts Anita Christensen and Betina Bach, both Aarhus, and Maria Rudbæk from Næstved. These three skilful girls have initiated the education for service dog instructor.
Several years of training and development of experience lie ahead for all three of them.

Maria Rudbæk, who is a local in relation to Fredensgaarden where the activities of the Association are based, participates in anything from the day-to-day practical chores with the dogs and the facilities for collective training and special training of the dogs.

Anita Christensen and Betina Bach both have young dogs posted for special training, naturally with expert guidance by Chief Instructor Lise Lotte Christensen.
It is not just a matter of a helping hand, but in the longer term also professional sparring, which may contribute to ensuring the Association’s ambition of delivering a quality product.
STH is to keep supplying skilful, specially trained dogs and provide continuing support and guidance to all posted STH teams.