Back Where They Belong Shelter Summit

Short, solutions-focused presentations about how shelter team members are getting animals back where they belong faster, easier, and better… and how you can too.
MMPC Spring 2023 Shelter Summit

View recorded sessions from the Spring 2023 Shelter Summit and Fast Tracks half-day online event. Learn about 5 high impact programs/practices to implement NOW at your shelter to help improve operations and outcomes. Continue with implementation by joining a Fast Track to work with the speakers/coaches featured here.
Coordinated Care: The Right Care in the Right Place

Learn progressive and collaborative ways of respecting all of the members of your community, especially those who come to us for supportive services. We’ll focus on ways to help pets stay in their current homes when possible and effectively reserve shelter intake for animals who really need to be in our care.
Hidden Gems: How to Make Your Shelter Software Help You Work Smarter, Not Harder

Start transforming numbers and patterns in your intake and outcome reports into concrete benefits for animals and staff. Discover how to increase live release and lower length of stay based on information you already have at your fingertips.
Are You Staying Within Your Capacity for Care? You Might Be Surprised!

Capacity for Care (C4C) is such a wonderful place to be, yet it can feel so out of reach. What is your shelter’s capacity for care, what is it based on, and are you staying within it? Even just understanding what C4C is can feel overwhelming, much less getting there. Need a refresher or don’t know where to start? Answer — right here!
Proven Barrier-Busting Strategies That Send Animals Home

Uncover hidden and not-so-hidden roadblocks that are keeping animals in the shelter, contributing to shelter team overwhelm and fatigue, and tying up precious resources. Discover how to clear the way to ensure more pets are reunited with their families or placed in new homes. Tap into opportunities to increase live outcomes and build relationships with potential partners, volunteers, fosters, and adopters in your community.
Feeling Overwhelmed with Making Outcome Decisions? We can help!

Shelter teams are faced daily with high-stakes outcome decisions made harder by an increasingly complex and strained system. We’ll discuss some of the issues at play and help you to develop tools to remove bottlenecks to outcomes and overcome the toughest decision-making dilemmas, from adoption to euthanasia, with transparency and compassion.