Liberty Dogs™ Campus

Just south of Downtown Damonte on a 27-acre site in Reno, Nevada, the Liberty Dogs™ Campus is built around a single conviction: that veterans with disabilities deserve both the highest-caliber support and the independence that comes from a genuine bond with a trained service dog. The campus does not separate these goals. It integrates them into a place designed from the ground up to make both possible.

SWABACK is contributing to the design of the campus in partnership with Animal Arts Design Studios, bringing planning coherence and architectural integrity to a program of considerable complexity. The full campus plan encompasses specialized training facilities, residential accommodations for veterans participating in the two-week intensive program, veterinary and whelping facilities, dog housing, and a multipurpose administrative building. By consolidating every aspect of the service dog training process within a single campus, Liberty Dogs is able to maintain direct oversight of the program from breeding through placement, ensuring consistency of care and a clear standard of outcome.

The campus serves veterans from across the country at no cost to them, supported by the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation, whose commitment to veteran well-being and companion animal welfare is the animating force behind the entire initiative. The result is a facility where the design work is inseparable from the mission it supports: a place that gives veterans and their dogs the space, structure, and environment to build something that lasts.