Online Event – 11/2/24 – Neighborhood Cats TNR Certification Workshop – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2024-11-02 11:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Our expert instructors will teach you best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Learn what TNR is and why it works. We’ll cover getting along with neighbors, preparations for trapping, trapping itself (including entire colonies at once), feeding, providing winter shelter, and more. Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and video footage of actual projects. Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance and gain access to an ongoing Facebook group for networking with other TNR activists. Instructed by Susan Richmond, executive director, and Bryan Kortis, national programs director.
Session duration is 2.5 hours, followed by an optional 15-minute Q&A session.
This course/webinar/series/conference has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA CEU policy located https://nacatraining.org/continuing-education-recertification/
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/events/the-neighborhood-cats-tnr-certification-workshop-nov-2024/

Online Event – 12/7/24 – Neighborhood Cats TNR Certification Workshop – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2024-12-07 11:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Our expert instructors will teach you best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Learn what TNR is and why it works. We’ll cover getting along with neighbors, preparations for trapping, trapping itself (including entire colonies at once), feeding, providing winter shelter, and more. Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and video footage of actual projects. Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance and gain access to an ongoing Facebook group for networking with other TNR activists. Instructed by Susan Richmond, executive director, and Bryan Kortis, national programs director.
Session duration is 2.5 hours, followed by an optional 15-minute Q&A session.
This course/webinar/series/conference has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA CEU policy located https://nacatraining.org/continuing-education-recertification/
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/events/the-neighborhood-cats-tnr-certification-workshop-dec-2024/

Webinar Series - 1/7/25, 1/8/25, 1/14/15, & 1/15/25 - Canine Defensive Handling - Puppyworks (fee applies)
2025-01-07 10:00 - 12:15, 2025-01-08 10:00 - 12:15, 2025-01-14 10:00 - 12:15, 2025-01-15 10:00 - 12:15 | Virtual
Register for this live webinar in four 2 hour sessions presented by Michael Shikashio and Trish McMillan. A crucial skillset for all dog trainers, shelter & rescue personnel to maintain safety in dangerous situations!
Live Sessions
A live webinar in four 2 hour sessions
Tuesdays & Wednesdays
January 7, 8, 14 & 15
Or watch the recordings afterwards anytime, anywhere on any device.
Early Bird Rates
(through December 6, 2024)
Individual: $99
Groups of 4+: $89
Rates go up by $20 after December 6, 2024
Earning CEUs​
10 CEU’s for CCPDT, CPDT-KA, CBCC-KA & IAABC
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.puppyworks.com/defensivehandling

Online Training - 1/15/25 - Surrender Prevention Certification Workshop Presented by Dr. Rachel Geller - Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-01-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
As a Surrender Prevention Specialist, you may be the difference between a cat losing her home and staying in her home. Join this session to learn what surrender prevention is and why it works. Instructed by Dr. Rachel Geller, she will share real examples, with proven results, setting the potential surrenderer and cat on the road to a happy relationship together and keeping the cat in her home. We’ll cover how to empathize with cat owners, working around their limitations (financial, time, patience), and focus on the 3 most common reasons for surrender: litter box problems, scratching (and not on the scratching post!), and inter-cat aggression. Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and video footage of actual techniques. This session is being recorded and recordings will be shared. Attendees will receive a certificate after taking a short quiz.
WEBSITE LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/8757944804645518678

Online Training – 5/14/25 – Surrender Prevention Certification Workshop Presented by Dr. Rachel Geller – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-05-14 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
As a Surrender Prevention Specialist, you may be the difference between a cat losing her home and staying in her home. Join this session to learn what surrender prevention is and why it works.
Instructed by Dr. Rachel Geller, she will share real examples, with proven results, setting the potential surrenderer and cat on the road to a happy relationship together and keeping the cat in her home.
We’ll cover how to empathize with cat owners, working around their limitations (financial, time, patience), and focus on the 3 most common reasons for surrender: litter box problems, scratching (and not on the scratching post!), and inter-cat aggression.
Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and video footage of actual techniques. This session is being recorded and recordings will be shared. Attendees will receive a certificate after taking a short quiz.
This session is led by Dr. Rachel Geller, founder of All Cats All the Time, Inc. and lasts 1.5 hours, including an optional 15-minute Q&A session. Registration is just $10.00.
This course/webinar/series/conference has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA CEU policy located https://nacatraining.org/continuing-education-recertification/
WEBSITE LINK: https://register.gotowebinar.com/rt/8757944804645518678

Online Training - 6/11/25 - Equitable Community Engagement for Board Members - Virginia Community Voice (fee applies)
2025-06-11 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
This training is for Board Members and shares VACV’s framework for equitable community engagement, and will guide participants through reflections on their experiences making decisions about and for historically marginalized communities.
Virginia Community Voice encourages organizations to reevaluate how they engage marginalized communities.
Virginia Community Voice offers leaders a simple framework to reflect on how decisions are made for both the Board and the institution the Board serves. Participants will work through the mental models that uphold traditional power systems, how to equitably make decisions, and engage people of color and other marginalized groups. Using this model, organizations can maximize impact and minimize harm caused to people in historically marginalized communities.
In this two-hour virtual training, participants will:

Think through traditional board structures and how they uphold power systems in organizations and communities
Learn about the four stages of the Community Voice model of engagement: Listen, Connect, Craft, and Reflect
Reflect on power, and understanding how to think about the power the Board wields, and how to imagine power sharing as a value for your Board
Reflect on their own experiences making decisions about and engaging people in historically marginalized communities
Learn strategies for power-sharing and diversifying your boards

Not a member of a Board? That’s ok! We still want you come, to let us know if this training resonates with you, and if you think your Board Members would benefit from it. We’ll also provide tips on how to approach the conversation with your Board about attending this training.
WEBSITE LINK: https://vacommunityvoice.networkforgood.com/events/79349-2025-june-equitable-community-engagement-for-board-members

Online Event – 6/14/25 – Neighborhood Cats TNR Certification Workshop – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-06-14 11:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Are you ready to be part of the solution for feral and stray cats in your neighborhood? Our expert instructors will teach you best practices for Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and colony management. Learn what TNR is and why it works. We’ll cover getting along with neighbors, preparations for trapping, trapping itself (including entire colonies at once), feeding, providing winter shelter, and more. Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and video footage of actual projects. Attendees will receive a certificate after taking a short quiz and gain access to an ongoing Facebook group for networking with other TNR activists. Instructed by Neighborhood Cats.
Session duration is 2.5 hours, followed by an optional 15-minute Q&A session.
$10 Fee
Registration Link

Online Training - 6/21/25 – Drop Trap: A Trapper’s Best Friend – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-06-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Trying to catch the last cat in your colony who isn’t fixed? Got a wily feral who just won’t go into a box trap, no matter how much you spend on roasted chicken? How about catching a litter of kittens all at once—with their mom? All these tough trapping situations and more can be solved if you know how to use a drop trap! Join Neighborhood Cats, co-designers of the first commercially available drop trap, as they discuss how to use this invaluable tool. Plus tips and tricks for advanced drop trappers, too. This program is presented in partnership with Neighborhood Cats.
Session duration is 2 hours. $10 Fee.
Registration link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/141353658981139291

Webinar - 7/22/25 and 7/24/25 - Access to Veterinary Care: Affordable or Excellent: Why Not Both? - CVMA (fee applies)
2025-07-22 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-07-24 17:30 - 18:45 | Virtual
Affordable care should not equate to substandard care. This presentation will cover how to utilize registered veterinary technicians (RVTs) and veterinary assistants to expand access to care in a surgical setting. We will also explore how leveraging RVTs and veterinary assistants can enhance access to affordable surgical care without compromising quality. We will discuss how RVTs and veterinary assistants can work together to form creative anesthesia and pain management approaches, including making CRIs easy and how to learn and implement local blocks. We will also discuss case management when overnight care is not an option.
This course qualifies for 1.5 CEUs.
CVMA Online Seminars are convenient interactive presentations offering CEUs held in real-time. This learning platform allows you to participate from anywhere with internet access—from your practice, your home, or anywhere you have an internet connection. Attending is as easy as a few mouse clicks. You will only need internet access and either computer audio, a headset, or a telephone.
This webinar is open to veterinarians, veterinary technicians, veterinary hospital staff, and veterinary students only.
Speaker: Robin Post, RVT
Robin Post, RVT, started her medical career as a veterinary assistant in the shelter medicine department of the San Francisco SPCA, then assuming a supervisory role in the SFSPCA Spay/Neuter clinic. Before joining Animal Fix Clinic, Robin was Supervisor of Off-Site Spay-Neuter Services, where she coordinated MASH-style spay/neuter clinics and helped develop spay/neuter programs at municipal shelters. She is also a reserve field technician for HSVMA–RAVS. Robin has overseen the anesthesia of literally tens of thousands of dogs and cats (from half-pound kittens to feral dogs to geriatric patients) in just about every imaginable physical condition. She received the CVMA’s Linda Markland Outstanding RVT of the Year Award in 2023.
WEBSITE LINK: https://cvma.net/continuing-education/upcoming-ce/cvma-access-to-care-webinar/

Training - 9/19/25 to 9/21/25 - G2Z2025 Feline HQHVSN Workshop - Getting 2 Zero (fee applies)
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21 | Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Created specifically to fill a gap for veterinary professionals, the G2Z2025 Feline HQHVSN Workshop is the only event of its kind in Australia.
We are delighted to be welcoming Dr Becky Morrow (DVM, Grad Cert Veterinary Forensics, Grad Cert Shelter Medicine, MS, CAWA), Assistant Teaching Professor (Penn State University), Adjunct Assistant Professor (University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine) and President and Medical Director of Frankies Friends, to Australia, to deliver the Feline HQHVSN Workshop.
The Feline HQHVSN Workshop consists of one dry lab day on 19th September with all participants. The day includes theory and some practical skills such as ties and knots.
Depending on numbers (up to 100 participants total) the group will split into two groups to undertake the wet lab days on 20th September and 21st September. Each participant team attends one day of the two. The wet lab will be focussed on desexing cats – 50 each day so one male and one female per team.
The goal is to have 100 participants that are made up of 50 veterinarians and 50 nurses/techs/practice manager. We are aiming for a ‘team’ (or more) from each workplace so that there is more than one person taking the knowledge and skills back to the workplace and because much of the value of HQHVSN lies in the processes and non-surgical aspects of the model.
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.accelevents.com/e/g2z2025

Online Training - 9/20/25 - Return-to-Field: Saving the Lives of Community Cats - Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-09-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
It used to be that a feral cat had little chance of exiting a shelter alive after he entered. But that’s no longer the case. In recent years, more and more shelters have adopted Return-to-Field (RTF) programs. Instead of euthanizing healthy community cats (whether feral, friendly or otherwise), the shelter will spay or neuter, eartip and vaccinate, then return the cat back to where he was found.
We’ll cover the policies behind RTF, the mechanics of implementing the program, current controversies over the RTF of friendly cats, and how to combine RTF with TNR in general to lower cat populations and create sustainability.
Take advantage of the interactive format, extensive handouts, and real-life video footage from actual projects. Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance and access to a dedicated Facebook group for ongoing networking with fellow TNR advocates.
This session is led by Susan Richmond, Executive Director, and Bryan Kortis, National Programs Director, and lasts 2 hours, followed by an optional 15-minute Q&A session. Registration is just $10.00.
This course/webinar/series/conference has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA CEU policy located https://nacatraining.org/continuing-education-recertification/
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/events/return-to-field-saving-the-lives-of-community-cats-presented-by-neighborhood-cats-sept-2025/

Online Training - 10/26/25 - CAVMRC Disaster Response Training (Virtual) - CVMA (fee applies)
2025-10-26 09:00 - 16:30 | Virtual
With over 3,000 volunteers, the California Veterinary Medical Reserve Corps (CAVMRC) provides emergency veterinary medical care to animals in disasters. As part of the CAVMRC’s mission to train and credential veterinary professionals to support animal and public health during a disaster, the CAVMRC is offering low-cost, interactive online continuing education for veterinarians, RVTs, and veterinary assistants.
By registering for this course, you are also registering to become a volunteer member of the CAVMRC, if you are not already a current member. CAVMRC membership is free and participation is strictly voluntary. This course is only available to CAVMRC members.
This course provides detailed information on emergency/critical care topics that can benefit you in everyday practice as well as during a disaster response.
Course topics:

Triage and Critical Patient Assessment
Shock Resuscitation and Patient Stabilization
Toxicology Review and Practical Applications
Animal Rescue Response to the 2025 Eaton Canyon Fire
Deployment Logistics: Shelterly and More
Disaster Preparedness for Veterinary Practices: Are You Ready?

WEBSITE LINK: https://cvma.net/continuing-education/upcoming-ce/cavmrc-disaster-response-training-virtual/

Online Course – 11/12/25 – Return to Home Certification Workshop – Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies)
2025-11-12 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtual
Leave all your assumptions about ‘dumped, abandoned, or unwanted’ stray cats at the door! Imagine if every stray cat entering our shelters was treated as a beloved pet with a family searching for them. How can we streamline the process of reuniting lost pets with their owners—without overburdening our dedicated staff and volunteers or filling up shelter space with lengthy stray holds?
In this session, we’ll explore straightforward, effective strategies and processes you can implement to support the owners of lost cats, become a valuable resource for those who find stray cats, and boost the rates at which cats in our shelters are joyfully reunited with their families.
Take advantage of the interactive format and earn your certificate of completion after passing a short quiz. Plus gain access to an exclusive Facebook group to network with other cat-focused volunteers and professionals.
This workshop is presented by Corinne Bourgoin, Shelter Operations Supervisor at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(MSPCA), and lasts 1.5 hours, including an optional 15-minute Q&A session. Registration is just $10.00.
This course/webinar/series/conference has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA CEU policy located https://nacatraining.org/continuing-education-recertification/
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.communitycatspodcast.com/events/return-to-home-certification-workshop-nov-2025/

In-Person Workshop - 1/13/25 to 1/16/25 - Shelter Behavior & Enrichment Workshop - Shelter Playgroup Alliance (fee applies)
2026-01-13 00:00 - 2026-01-16 23:59 | Virtual
Don’t miss out on this hands-on workshop to build essential skills for safely working with dogs in the shelter over four days at Berkeley Animal Care Services. You will work in small groups along side experienced, certified coaches to build your skills in a supportive and constructive environment. Join us January 13-16, 2026, and you will earn a Certificate of Completion, as well as the confidence and skills to improve the lives of the animals in your care.
​This workshop is limited to 20 participants. Register to secure your spot now!
Who: Shelter Staff & Volunteers
What: Behavior & Enrichment Workshop
When: January 13-16, 2026
Where: Berkeley Animal Care Services, 1 Bolivar Dr, Berkeley, CA 94710
Cost: $800
​CEUs: 27 (CCPDT), 20 (IAABC)
No prerequisites are required to attend this workshop. This is a special offering open to all shelter staff and volunteers, regardless of the status of online course work.
WEBSITE LINK: https://www.shelterdogplay.org/in-person-workshops
