Service Animals

Animals and pets are not permitted in College facilities. Animals that are part of instructional activities and service animals are the only exceptions.

Cleveland Community College, in compliance with Title II and III of the Americans with Disability Act of 1990, is required to permit service animals to accompany individuals with disabilities on the College campus. Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.