Project K-9 Hero Donates K-9 Jodi to Lapeer School District

We’re proud to announce that, as part of our mission to raise awareness about the challenges retired working dogs face and to strengthen the communities they serve, we’ve donated $12,000 to Lapeer Community Schools in Michigan to help purchase and train K-9 Jodi.

Jodi's job will be to make her community safer. She'll be working to find and deter illegal firearms in schools throughout the Lapeer area. As a passive tracking dog, she will also assist in locating missing persons, including children, the elderly, and people with special needs.

K-9 Jodi was named after our Founder's late sister Jodi Johnson.

Jason Johnson, Founder and CEO of Project K-9 Hero, commented:

 “As a 1993 graduate of Lapeer West, and a 2018 inductee to the Lapeer Community Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Honor, it is absolutely my distinct privilege to be able to give back to the safety and security of the town that raised me and my siblings in such a manner. When I founded Project K-9 Hero almost a decade ago, my late sister Jodi Johnson was by far our biggest supporter and advocate. Now that Project K-9 Hero has become one of the largest nonprofits in the world for Police K-9s and Military Working Dogs, being in a position to place a firearms detection and passive tracking canine in the same schools we attended, and to protect and serve the community we grew up in, means the world to Jodi Johnson’s family and everyone who knew and loved her.”

K-9 Jodi is now the third dog Project K-9 Hero has donated to a community, along with K-9 Gwen (Marion County, TN) and K-9 Gator (Sequatchie County, TN).

Your support of our organization not only changes the lives of our Program Members but it also makes our communities safer!

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