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Name: Webinar – 9/11/25 – Maddie’s Insights – Gatekeeping Pet Ownership: The Impacts of Adoption Discrimination – Maddie’s Fund
Start: 2025-09-11T12:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-11T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Virtual

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Webinar – 9/11/25 – Maddie’s Insights – Gatekeeping Pet Ownership: The Impacts of Adoption Discrimination – Maddie’s Fund

September 11 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

Free

Gatekeeping Pet Ownership: The Impacts of Adoption Discrimination

The animal welfare field has been discussing low-barrier adoption processes as a best practice for more than a decade, yet recent research by Companions and Animals for Reform and Equity has found that BIPOC families are still more likely than white families to be denied during the adoption process. The findings highlight the critical need to move discussions from “low-barrier adoptions” to “making pet ownership accessible to all.”

Attendees will learn about:

• the prevalence and impact of shelter/rescue adoption discrimination in four U.S. cities (Atlanta, Philadelphia, Miami, Minneapolis)
• solutions for increasing access to pet ownership for BIPOC families

Earn continuing education credit from The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement towards 1.0 CAWA CEs. This webinar has also been pre-approved for 1.0 continuing education credits by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). It has also been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval.

Have questions or comments related to this topic? Share your thoughts on the discussion thread:

https://maddies.fund/InsightsAdoptionDiscriminationSept2025

Register at: https://maddies.fund/MIwebcastsRegister