Maddie’s Fund Presents: In our Season 3 premiere on February 15, 2024 at 12pm PT, meet Dianne Prado, Founder and President of the Housing Equity & Advocacy Resource Team (HEART LA), a unique non-profit that was truly born from the heart.
CARE Presents: Throughout history, we have seen and heard of the stories of powerful figures who, one way or another, influenced the society we live in today. In this segment, we will discuss significant historical figures you may not know about due to our historic and modern-day inequities. As we know, there is still much work to do, especially considering the Human and Animal Wellbeing space.
California for All Animals Presents: The one-hour call is a dedicated space to share and learn from each other. Popular topics include initiatives that create a more inclusive culture for both staff and community, programs that keep pets with their people, industry trends, research studies, as well as the hard stuff, like what’s not working or what is particularly difficult during times of scarcity.
Community Cats Podcast Presents: Learn from the folks who started the community TNR program in New York City and helped other municipalities organize their programs as well. We’ll go over training the public, providing support services, tracking success, gaining publicity and more.
Hearts Speak Presents: In this webinar, you’ll learn how to effectively identify and segment your audience to create personalized communications that connect with your community. We’ll show you how to refine your core messages to align with your audiences for greater impact. Expect to gain insights into essential tools and practical steps to successfully implement your audience-engaged marketing plan.
California for All Animals Presents: The one-hour call is a dedicated space to share and learn from each other. On February 20, the City of Sacramento Front Street Animal Shelter will showcase a few of their initiatives designed to remove barriers between pets and people and keep families together in a city where over 4,000 people face chronic homelessness, second to only Los Angeles and New York City.
VIN Presents (fee applies): This course will cover strategies to reduce length of stay include daily population rounds, tracking animal flow through the shelter and removing bottlenecks, pathway planning, open selection, managed admissions, and fast-tracking of highly adoptable pets, and more.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Presents: Join your colleagues nationwide for two half-days of actionable programs that you can begin to implement today to slow the number of animals coming into the shelter and get the ones that do back home faster, easier, better.
CARE Presents: Get curious with representatives from CARE’s Environmental Justice, Community Animal CARE, and CARE Center teams. Aline Silva interviews Akisha Townsend Eaton, Rae Williams, and Tre Law to share important historical information for Black land owners and farmers, how it intersects with Environmental Justice, and why we should all care about this to benefit humans and animals.
Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge Presents: Submit your photos, videos and stories of dogs and cats heading back to the people, places, and animal pals they know and love by February 22 at 5 pm PT. We’ll draw two $100 gift card winners who will be announced at the closing session of the Back Where They Belong summit on February 28.
University of Florida – Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Program Presents (fee applies): Compassion Fatigue Strategies is a unique online course designed to support people who work with animals. The course will help you recognize signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue, learn to manage your stress levels and increase your self-care practices, connect with the rewards of your work, build your resiliency, and commit to making successful changes in your life and in your organization.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for the all-inclusive 2024 Open Arms Challenge! This grant Challenge is like no other. For the entire month of April 2024, animal shelters, foster-based organizations and public charities are encouraged to create a new program or expand an existing one focused on keeping pets and people together. Beginning in 2024, there will only be one Challenge per year.
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund hosts a weekly 50-minute Zoom call for animal well-being professionals. These calls are a collaborative space to share exciting new programs and research, discuss uncomfortable topics, connect with peers in the industry, and more, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
The AAWA Presents: Join us for a discussion with industry leaders about building a fair and just workforce. Learn how they’re recruiting and onboarding talent through a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Presents: Join your colleagues nationwide for two half-days of actionable programs that you can begin to implement today to slow the number of animals coming into the shelter and get the ones that do back home faster, easier, better.
The National Kitten Coalition Presents: Learn about early spaying/neutering procedures and get talking points to address any concerns your local veterinarians or potential adopters may have. Eligible registrants will be entered into our SnuggleSafe® Giveaway*! Attendees will receive two extra entries in the prize draw.
The AAWA Presents: Join us to analyze key data insights, challenges, and successes from 2023, then peek into what Shelter Animals Count (SAC) has planned for 2024.
CARE Presents: CARE’s American Black History Month series conversation with Dr. Azalia Boyd, Chief Veterinary Medican Officer, and Dr. Tierra Price, Founder, BlackDVM Network. Topics: Discussing issues, false narratives, stereotypes, and perceptions that can create divides. Using this space to educate builds community and connection to change the inequities impacting the communities.
HASS Presents: Having a 90% or higher save rate has become the gold standard for measuring the success or failure of an animal shelter or rescue, and it will continue to be an important metric. The problem is that the save rate focuses only on a singular point in a complex societal issue. Join Dr. Ellen Jefferson and Cole Wakefield, Executive Director of The Good Shepherd Humane Society, for what is sure to be a lively discussion.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents (fee applies): In this webinar, we will teach the fundamentals of our “Fancy Footwork” techniques that focus on achieving good leash manners through the use of your FEET instead of your hands. Come learn this unique and highly effective approach that promotes dogs happily walking softly by your side, offering tons of eye contact, and wowing adopters!
