This calendar is a listing of webinars, other learning opportunities, online meetings and other upcoming national events related to animal sheltering and related areas of interest.

Only some of these events are produced by the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program. Most are being created and sponsored by other groups and agencies.  Being listed here does not mean that we have reviewed the material contained.  We are trying to provide a variety of resources to hopefully help make your life a little easier.  For additional information on any of these items before or after the event please contact the organizer directly (listed in the item description).

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Event Series Zoom Meeting – 3/29/23 to 5/17/23 – Summit Fast Track: Proven Barrier-Busting Strategies That Send Animals Home – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Zoom Meeting – 3/29/23 to 5/17/23 – Summit Fast Track: Proven Barrier-Busting Strategies That Send Animals Home – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Virtual

Maddie's Million Pet Challenge Presents: Uncover hidden and not-so-hidden roadblocks that are keeping animals in the shelter, contributing to shelter team overwhelm and fatigue, and tying up precious resources. Discover how to clear the way to ensure more pets are reunited with their families or placed in new homes. Tap into opportunities to increase live outcomes and build relationships with potential partners, volunteers, fosters, and adopters in your community.

Free
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Webinar – 3/29/23 – Predation Substitute Training – A Holistic Training Program To Stop Dogs From Chasing! – PPG (fee applies)

Virtual

PPG Presents (fee applies): Predation Substitute Training (PST) is a motivation-based and need-oriented training program, designed to stop uncontrolled predatory chasing and to provide safe outlets for our dog’s natural drive. Instead of making discipline the nagging factor that spoils the fun, this training system will help dogs and their guardians to grow as a team and go hunting together!

$30 – $35
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Event Series Zoom Meeting – 3/29/23 to 5/17/23 – Summit Fast Track: Feeling Overwhelmed with Making Outcome Decisions? We can help! – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Zoom Meeting – 3/29/23 to 5/17/23 – Summit Fast Track: Feeling Overwhelmed with Making Outcome Decisions? We can help! – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Virtual

Maddie's Million Pet Challenge Presents: Shelter teams are faced daily with high-stakes outcome decisions made harder by an increasingly complex and strained system. We’ll discuss some of the issues at play and help you to develop tools to remove bottlenecks to outcomes and overcome the toughest decision-making dilemmas, from adoption to euthanasia, with transparency and compassion.

Free
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Event Series Zoom Meeting – 3/30/23 to 5/18/23 – Summit Fast Track: Are You Staying Within Your Capacity for Care? – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Zoom Meeting – 3/30/23 to 5/18/23 – Summit Fast Track: Are You Staying Within Your Capacity for Care? – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Virtual

Maddie's Million Pet Challenge Presents: Capacity for Care (C4C) is such a wonderful place to be, yet it can feel so out of reach. What is your shelter’s capacity for care, what is it based on, and are you staying within it? Even just understanding what C4C is can feel overwhelming, much less getting there. Need a refresher or don’t know where to start? Answer — right here!

Free
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Event Series Zoom Meeting – 3/30/23 to 5/18/23 – Summit Fast Track – Coordinated Care: Ensuring Animals & People Get the Right Care in Right Place – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Zoom Meeting – 3/30/23 to 5/18/23 – Summit Fast Track – Coordinated Care: Ensuring Animals & People Get the Right Care in Right Place – Maddie’s Million Pet Challenge

Virtual

Maddie's Million Pet Challenge Presents: Learn progressive and collaborative ways of respecting all of the members of your community, especially those who come to us for supportive services. We’ll focus on ways to help pets stay in their current homes when possible and effectively reserve shelter intake for animals who really need to be in our care. We’ll discuss not only how these techniques can reduce shelter intakes, but also how this approach will set everyone up for success, including families, animals, and shelter team members.

Free
VETGirl webinar Total injectable anesthesia in the emergency room

Webinar – 3/30/23 – Anestesia inyectable total en la sala de emergencia – VETGirl

Virtual

VETGirl Presents: En este webinar, de 1 hora de VETgirl Español, el Dr. Alberto L. Fernandez, DACVECC discutirá el uso de la anestesia inyectable en la Sala de Emergencia y en la Unidad de Cuidado Intensivo. Se repasarán los medicamentos disponibles, con énfasis en la farmacología y contraindicaciones de cada uno, para proveer una anestesia segura.

Free

Online Course – Deadline 3/31/23 – Spring 2023 Track Pack Application – Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge

Virtual

Maddie's Million Pet Challenge Presents: Continue learning and start implementing through our eight-week coach-led Fast Tracks (with minimal time commitment each week). Apply to join a Track Pack to unlock dedicated coaching sessions and get the extra accountability, motivation, and inspiration you need to get the impact you want. Stay on track by advancing within a tight-knit group of shelters working side-by-side with your coaches to achieve your goals.

Free

Animal Care Expo 2023
Event Series Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hilton New Orleans Riverside Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA, United States

HSUS Presents (fee applies): With eleven workshop tracks, learning labs, networking opportunities and social events, Animal Care Expo has something for everyone who cares about companion animals.

$60 – $300
Animal Care Expo 2023
Event Series Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hilton New Orleans Riverside Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA, United States

HSUS Presents (fee applies): With eleven workshop tracks, learning labs, networking opportunities and social events, Animal Care Expo has something for everyone who cares about companion animals.

$60 – $300
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Event Series Online Meeting – Mondays – Weekly Community Conversations #ThanksToMaddie – Maddie’s Fund

Online Meeting – Mondays – Weekly Community Conversations #ThanksToMaddie – Maddie’s Fund

Virtual

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.

Free
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Online Certificate Program – Starts 4/4/23 – Animal Shelter Management Certificate Program – Marketing and Development – Humane Network/UoP (fee applies)

Virtual

Humane Network/UoP Presents (fee applies): This award-winning online certificate program provides practical information and valuable networking for current sheltering professionals, those looking to advance their career, or move into the field of animal sheltering. The program’s courses include leadership, shelter operations, community program development, animal health/clinic operations, and marketing/development.

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Animal Care Expo 2023
Event Series Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hilton New Orleans Riverside Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA, United States

HSUS Presents (fee applies): With eleven workshop tracks, learning labs, networking opportunities and social events, Animal Care Expo has something for everyone who cares about companion animals.

$60 – $300
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Webinar – 4/4/23 – Quick! Hit PAUSE: Using Controlled Setups for Reactive Dogs with Suzanne Clothier – PPG (fee applies)

Virtual

PPG Presents (fee applies): This webinar dives into what you need to know to help reactive dogs through carefully controlled set-ups. If you’ve ever wished for a PAUSE button on life to help your dog, this webinar is for you. The practical information provided will help you create successful training moments. Find out why so many clients and their dogs have benefited from this sensible approach to thin slicing for success.

$30 – $35
Connecting the Dots in Civil and Criminal Justice

Webinar – 4/4/23 – Connecting the Dots in Civil and Criminal Justice: Protecting People by Focusing on Animal Abuse – NACA/Justice Clearinghouse

Virtual

NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: This webinar will: introduce seven distinct Links between animal abuse and other family violence; show how recognizing animal welfare issues helps resolve challenges in animal cruelty and civil cases; offer guidelines for court officials; and review professional and legislative responses to The Link that benefit not only Man’s Best Friend… but also Man (and especially Woman).

Free
Animal Care Expo 2023
Event Series Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hybrid Conference – 4/2/23 to 4/6/23 – Animal Care Expo 2023 – HSUS (fee applies)

Hilton New Orleans Riverside Two Poydras St, New Orleans, LA, United States

HSUS Presents (fee applies): With eleven workshop tracks, learning labs, networking opportunities and social events, Animal Care Expo has something for everyone who cares about companion animals.

$60 – $300
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Webinar – 4/5/23 – The Importance of Transparency in Sheltering and Rescue – PPG (fee applies)

Virtual

PPG Presents (fee applies): Much like the lack of transparency in dog training, there's also a lack of transparency in sheltering and rescue organizations. This webinar will review key questions adopters, donors and those looking to support organizations should look for, red flags to be aware of and how organizations can improve their transparency with the public

$20 – $25
IAABC The Thinking Dog Course

Online Course – Starts 4/6/23 – The Thinking Dog: Cognition and its Role in Behavior – IAABC (fee applies)

Virtual

IAABC Presents (fee applies): This course will guide you through those intangible, invisible mental processes that influence behavior. It includes fascinating cognitive capabilities such as understanding time and concepts, reasoning, self-awareness, and consciousness. All of these abilities combine to form the mental experience of an animal, and understanding that experience is critical to understanding behavior!

$165 – $300
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Event Series Webinar Series – 4/6/23 and 5/5/23 – Take Charge to Make Change: Policy Advocacy for Network Partners – Best Friends

Webinar Series – 4/6/23 and 5/5/23 – Take Charge to Make Change: Policy Advocacy for Network Partners – Best Friends

Virtual

Best Friends Presents: In this new webinar series, the Best Friends advocacy team sits down to discuss topics around policy, advocacy, and grassroots efforts for animal welfare organizations. The series aims to provide information to help you save lives in your everyday work. Topics covered include working with elected officials, lobbying, fundraising, data, coalitions, strategic plans, and more.

Free

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