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Service Peace Warriors

Service dogs for Veterans and First responders in the Pacific Northwest

Service dogs for Veterans and First responders in the Pacific NorthwestService dogs for Veterans and First responders in the Pacific NorthwestService dogs for Veterans and First responders in the Pacific NorthwestService dogs for Veterans and First responders in the Pacific Northwest

Mary Mattox Co-Founder/Co-CEO

My name is Mary Mattox. I serve as the Co-Founder of Service Peace Warriors. After a life-saving experience with my son's 8-month-old German Shepherd, I decided to get and train my service dog for my complex PTSD. With this experience and the statistics of 24 Veterans killing themselves every day, I decided to start Service Peace Warriors. I have over 30 years of dog training experience, beginning at a young age, training herd dogs in New Zealand. I founded Service Peace Warriors in 2015, and we put our first teams (Veteran/Dog) in 2017. since then, I have seen the impact these dogs can make, and I am excited to see how many more lives we can change. 

Chance Mattox Co-Founder/Co-CEO

My name is Chance Mattox. I am the  Co-Founder of Service Peace Warriors. After graduating High School in 2018, I dedicated my life to my passion for training dogs and giving back to Veterans. This passion developed through many years of training and showing dogs through 4-H. I began training service dogs for Service Peace Warriors, serving an apprenticeship under Mary Mattox. In 2019, I partnered with Mary to found Mattox Dog Training Academy, specializing in rehabilitating aggressive and highly anxious dogs. I look forward to improving my dog training skills in the future while helping deserving Veterans. 

Randall Keene Chief Growth Officer

  

My name is Randall Keene. I am a former small business owner with 20 years of experience in IT operations and support, business administration, bookkeeping, and accounting. I strongly believe in creating a client-focused environment, streamlining processes and procedures, and developing new policies that align with an organization's vision and goals. My objective is to help ensure longevity and stability within any organization while identifying and strengthening key needs. While I may be very focused and goal-oriented, I believe that the personal touch is everything.

About Us

What are Service Peace Warriors?

  • An organization dedicated to giving free service dogs to U.S. Veterans and First Responders with PTSD, MST, and other disabilities.
  • Operating out of Eltopia, Washington.
  • 501c3 Nonprofit Organization

Who This Service Is For?

Service Peace Warriors is a service for any Veteran or First Responder who needs help coping with PTSD symptoms, MST, and other disabilities. This service includes active and non-active duty if your PTSD, MST, or other disabilities result from your service to our country or our communities, and you are actively getting treated by a medical professional, we can help you.

Who Provides This Service?

Mary Mattox has trained and worked with animals most of her life. She grew up in New Zealand, where she rode racehorses and worked on dairy farms whenever possible. As a child, Mary worked alongside sheepdogs during the Christmas holidays. Then, on and off over her lifetime, teaching dogs obedience and tricks, starting with her first dog, Charlie. She was brought to America at the age of 17 and became widely known for her natural wisdom in breeding and raising pigs, goats, dogs, and horses. She broke horses for about eight years, was a 4-H leader for ten years, and has been involved in 4-H for eighteen years. 

Mary grew up with a torturous, violent, and controlling mother. Mary was fostered out to other families and further abused by various strangers. She was exposed to multiple traumas over a long 17-year period, starting from as young as a baby. As a consequence, Mary developed lifetime Complex PTSD. Living with and raising animals has always been healing for her anxiety. Mary's profound understanding that animals can be healing for humans, combined with her genuine and passionate drive to help others, led her to start Service Peace Warriors. Although Mary does not know what it's like to be a veteran, she does understand what it's like to live with PTSD. Her symptoms were so bad that she ended up in the hospital with high enough blood pressure to give her a stroke. At times in her life, when the anxiety and depression got too severe, she spent weeks in bed talking herself out of killing herself. Mary's experience has led her to feel deep empathy for American Veterans and First Responders. Service Peace Warriors is her way of giving back for what they do for our country and communities. Mary knows what a dog's comfort brings and how it changes her life. Having a dog allowed her to go places, do things, and interact with people. Teaming up with her service dog opened up a new world for her, and she hopes to do the same for American Veterans and First Responders with PTSD.

Service Dogs for Veterans and First Responders in Washington and Pacific Northwest

Here in Eltopia, just a bit North of Tri-Cities, Washington, you can be in a relaxed country setting while training with your Service Dog.

Why - Veterans and First Responder

Veterans and first responders give so much of themselves to protect our country and communities. Many times, because of this service, they end up dealing with PTSD, MST, or other service-related disabilities. Many want the ability to step outside their front doors and live fulfilling lives. Service dogs can play a crucial role in this transformation. Oftentimes, these individuals struggle to leave their homes due to traumatic flashbacks, and these dogs help open up new possibilities for them, such as going to the grocery store, traveling with friends and family, or simply helping them feel more grounded in public spaces. Additionally, for individuals struggling with trauma, these dogs provide emotional and psychological security. This support allows the veteran or first responder to feel safer, more comfortable, less anxious, and less agitated. The sense of security that these dogs can provide is an invaluable gift that we believe can help change lives four paws at a time. 

SPW Cloud - The First SPW Dog

It all started with Cloud - he was the first.

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