NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present: Join us for an open Q&A session designed for animal welfare professionals at every stage of their careers. Our expert panel — representing municipal agencies, nonprofits, rural programs, and large-scale operations — will tackle your toughest questions, from staffing and funding to intake, public pressure, and field enforcement. Bring your challenges, get practical solutions.

The Center for Pet Family Well-being Presents: Join Becky DeBolt, DVM, and Jason French, MD, as they share practical, real-world guidance on responding to common injuries and emergency situations affecting both pets and people—so you’re prepared when every second counts.

Best Friends Presents: This session will equip shelter veterinarians and staff with the most current, evidence-based guidance on FeLV and FIV testing, interpretation, and management in the shelter setting. Participants will explore updated diagnostic recommendations, common testing challenges, and practical approaches for integrating testing into daily shelter operations. The session will also highlight strategies that support efficient population flow, informed decision-making, and strong lifesaving outcomes.

HASS Presents: This month at HASS Connect, we are exploring the transformative potential of AI and how to truly optimize it for our industry. Whether you are already using AI and can share your insights or are simply curious to learn how it can streamline your daily work, we invite you to join us. Together, we will share real-world experiences and troubleshoot challenges to help you uncover the untapped potential of these tools.

CalAnimals Presents: You won’t want to miss this important webinar to learn about proactive strategies that helped Washoe County Regional Animal Services achieve Return to Home RTH success of 63% of dogs and 8% of cats.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for a dynamic look at some of the winning strategies from the 2025 Foster 50 Challenge. Through a series of lightning-fast talks, you’ll learn how grant funding helped spark new ideas, expanded foster programs, and created measurable change for communities and animals in need. In this 2-hour webcast, you’ll walk away with practical strategies and inspiration that show what’s possible when shelters invest in fostering. There will be time for your questions and answers, too.

Don’t Forget the Pets Presents: When it comes to healthcare for pet owners experiencing homelessness, the One Health clinical care model is proving to both improve access to veterinary care as well as human healthcare. In this 1-hour webinar we’ll examine the success of integrated human and veterinary care on healthcare, homeless services, and housing, and explore how this model of care can be modified to meet the needs of your community.

CalAnimals Presents: California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) continues to create significant legal and financial exposure for nonprofit organizations, including animal shelters and animal control agencies. Many well-intentioned employers are unaware of common wage-and-hour compliance gaps that can quickly lead to costly claims. In this practical and informative webinar, employment defense attorney Mandeep Rupal will break down the most common pitfalls that lead to PAGA lawsuits and provide clear, actionable strategies to help organizations reduce risk.

Best Friends Presents: This webinar will explore how shelters can use the Guidelines to evaluate practices, support decision-making, and strengthen conditions that help animals move safely and successfully through shelter care.

HASS Presents: The session highlights new data, stories, and tools that help organizations design more empathetic, effective support systems. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to integrate these findings into daily operations and long‑term planning.

Maddie’s Fund Presents: Meeting both the physical and psychological needs of dogs living in animal shelters is a challenging proposition. Negative environmental inputs, such as excessive noise, restrictive kenneling, and social isolation, contribute to compromised canine welfare. Dr. Lisa Gunter will present her research findings from a recently published study about weeklong fostering and co-housing.

ASPCAPro Presents: This course provides up‑to‑date training on four emerging toxins in veterinary medicine: oclacitinib, acrylamide, GLP‑1 receptor agonists, and 7‑hydroxymitragynine (a primary kratom alkaloid). You’ll learn how each toxin affects pets, where exposure commonly occurs, how to recognize clinical signs, and current best practices for diagnosis and treatment.

The Center for Pet and Family Well-being Presents: This webinar will explore: the significance of the human–animal bond; common and complex grief responses; types of grief unique to pet loss; and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across social work, veterinary medicine, and healthcare.

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present: In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create a simple yet powerful wildlife tracking system and see how that data can transform into compelling maps and visual stories using low-cost (or even free) tools. We’ll also feature a real-world case study from our Shelter Mentorship partners at Harker Heights Pet Adoption Center in Texas, showing how data tracking reshaped their approach to wildlife and community engagement.

Life of Riley at Spring Point Presents: This presentation dives deeper into the breeder category framework JVR Strategies first introduced during Life of Riley’s virtual conference in October 2025. The framework organizes breeders into several categories and offers one way to describe these groups, helping bring greater clarity and alignment to conversations about the breeding landscape.

Best Friends Presents: Whether you’re a shelter leader, manager, staff member, or volunteer — this webinar is for anyone looking for practical, achievable ways to test new ideas, build momentum for change, and move lifesaving efforts forward — one pilot at a time. Save your seat and join live!