Hybrid Conference – 10/27/22 to 10/30/22 – 2022 Annual Conference – AAFP (fee applies)
AAFP Presents (fee applies): Join us in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, or virtual. This year's theme is "Enriching Feline Care & the Veterinary Experience."
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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AAFP Presents (fee applies): Join us in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, or virtual. This year's theme is "Enriching Feline Care & the Veterinary Experience."
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.
NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: This live presentation is designed specifically for animal shelter representatives who utilize social media and want to learn more about how to manage your online reputation.
The AAWA Presents: Quality data are solid building blocks for decision-making. Participants of this session will learn the key data and calculations used to measure success and how to identify opportunities and evaluate program effectiveness
ASPCAPro Presents: During this webinar, we’ll share tips you can use throughout an animal’s stay to keep them cruising along their path (or help them take an appropriate detour), including population rounds, pre-selection, foster-to-adopt, and other lifesaving programs.
VETGirl Presents: In this complimentary, 1-hour VETgirl Spanish webinar, Dr. Mariana A. Pardo, BVSc, MV, DACVECC reviews the pathophysiology of primary and secondary brain injury.
CVMA Presents (fee applies): The first hour of the webinar will be for all employees (supervisors and non-supervisors). There will be a 15-minute break followed by the second hour of the webinar for supervisors only so that they can receive a full two hours of training.
This 4 session VIRTUAL workshop designed for all levels of shelter staff will cover advice to resolve common dog and cat behavior problems to prevent…
Maddie's Fund Presents: Maddie's Insights are monthly webcasts with practical tips based on current research to help pets and people. Dr. Lisa Gunter will discuss key takeaways for foster recruitment, trial adoption programs, caregiving practices, and behavioral support that can be utilized in our post-pandemic world.
Best Friends Presents: This session will highlight the concept of courageous conversations with the goal of providing animal welfare staff and volunteers with the tools they need to navigate an emotionally complex working environment.
FDSA Presents (fee applies): Whatever your training goals or sport, the Elemental Questions™ help you truly “see the dog” and provide the detailed information about each animal as he is. This is where truly humane training is grounded: in detailed knowledge about the individual dog.
Shelter Behavior Hub Presents (fee applies): Learn the many ways dogs can help other dogs, in and outside of the shelter environment. In this webinar, you will learn about social learning, dog play dynamics, and how to manage playgroups in shelters.
Community Cats Podcast (small fee applies): 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.
IAABC Presents (fee applies): This course will help you think scientifically about animal training and behavior consulting for all species, understand and break training into component principles, understand environmental events that maintain behavior, increase your ability to be humane and effective, and more.
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.
Dog iBox Presents (fee applies): One personality trait that has been shown to have such an influence in humans - and now also in dogs - is high sensitivity or “sensory processing sensitivity”. This webinar will give an insight into this personality trait, present the most interesting results of our research in dogs and offer some suggestions of how this knowledge might help prevent and treat (behavioural) problems and thereby increase the quality of life of dogs and their surroundings.
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.
CARE Presents: How do we talk about and address anti Blackness and anti-Indigeneity as Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)? How do we acknowledge the harms and current reality to move forward in solidarity? To understand the issues and grapple with these questions, we have invited a group of panelists to discuss.
VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour, VETgirl small animal webinar, Dr. Willie Bidot, MPH, MS, DACLAM will review the basics of shelter medicine including tips and recommendations from animal handling and anesthesia to recovery in the shelter.
Shelters United Presents: Access to veterinary support is harder than ever. Whether you’re on the sheltering side of animal care, or the veterinary side, working together can be complicated and demanding. If you’re a shelter or rescue struggling to find or cultivate effective working relationships with veterinarians, this listening session is designed to hear your challenges and offer guidance with obtaining a veterinarian of record and maintaining an effective relationship.
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