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!
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.
California for All Animals Presents: The one-hour call is a dedicated space to share and learn from each other. On March 5, Monica Dangler and Kaitlyn Pappas will share how Pima Animal Care Center used Petco Love Lost to double the number of animals returned home in the community.
Dogs Playing for Life Presents: Reactivity on the part of dogs living in shelters is a rampant issue that can contribute to behavioral deterioration, increased length of stay, and even loss of life. From a misdiagnosis of “aggression” to dogs whose reactive behavior escalates to problematic and potentially unsafe levels, learning how to help dogs suffering from reactivity issues is a crucial need shared by our entire industry.
Community Cats Podcast Presents (small fee applies): Join us for an eye-opening workshop that will revolutionize the way we view “dumped, abandoned, or unwanted” stray cats. Titled “Leaving Preconceived Notions Behind,” this session is not just a workshop; it’s a call to action!
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for the all-inclusive 2024 Open Arms Challenge; register by March 6 at 5 pm! 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.
