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Shelter & rescue

Increasing professionalism and strengthening best practices for rescue groups and shelters

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Shelter Training Topics

Training sessions on the following topics are offered for shelters and rescue groups are shaped based on surveys/community feedback/overal challenges faced by the animal welfare community::

• Adoptions
• Animal Handling
• Behavior & Enrichment
• Bonding & Forfeiture
• Breed Specific Legislation (BSL)
• Cats in shelters - housing, handling
• Collaboration/Networking
• Community Cats/Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)
• Community Preparedness
• Compassion Fatigue
• Customer Service
• Disaster Planning
• Event planning (adoption events, fundraisers, community outreach, etc.)
• Facility Preparedness
• Five Freedoms
• Fundraising
• Grant Writing
• Incident Command Structure (ICS)
• Legislation/Lobbying
• Pet Retention Programs
• Pets & Rental Housing
• Pets For Life
• Puppy Mills, Pet Stores & Shelters
• Sanitation
• Shelter Animals Count
• Social Media
• Veterinary topics (intake exams, vaccines, daily rounds, etc.)
• Virtual Consultant/ASV Guidelines
• Volunteer programs
• Working with Law Enforcement

Example Shelter and Rescue Training Agenda

Year One

• Compassion Fatigue Training: Understanding Compassion Fatigue and the ability to positively influence your own experience no matter what the context
• Working with Law Enforcement: Developing relationships with law enforcement to achieve success for all parties involved
• Building Humane Communities: A holistic approach to provide support & resources to pet lovers from all communities

Year Two

Five Freedoms
Customer Service
Bonding & Forfeiture

• What are they and how do they impact your animal work?
• Understanding the process
• Relationship with law enforcemen
• Warrants

Grant writing – and getting!

• Finding grants
• Navigating the application process
• Creating proposals that wow funders

New National Initiatives – programs to help YOU save more lives!

• Million Cat Challenge
• Shelter Animals Count
• The latest on best practices

If you are interested in a training for your shelter, contact us.