Shelter Learniverse and Industry-Wide Calendar

Best Friends Presents: During this webinar you’ll learn how to be a better advocate for dogs in your shelter, decrease length of stay, and create more positive outcomes – all by documenting dog behavior. Our experts will share common challenges of sharing and documenting dog behavior in the shelter setting. We’ll also discuss what barriers we might be creating and how to use objective and factual language when speaking with potential adopters and fosters.

FDSA Presents (fee applies): This webinar will lay out all the possible ways you can get a proper grip on door dashing, from training useful behaviours to implementing easy management tips. Attendees will be able to apply some of these immediately after the webinar.

ACVB Presents (fee applies): This talk will focus on practical strategies and sedation plans to enhance safety and reduce stress for all parties involved.

Think Anesthesia Presents: In this presentation the audience will be introduced to the neurochemistry of mental health issues and gain practical knowledge about how to address various symptoms, including when to seek professional support.

PPG Presents (fee applies): In this session, we’ll cover how to achieve harmonious walks. Nancy will move away from focusing on the traditional heeling behavior, and towards recognizing and meeting dogs’ needs through foundation skills and on-leash games that anyone can do. “Harmonious walks” means everyone wins: Happy dogs, and happy clients.

CalAnimals Presents: One of the most important work of shelters these days is serving local communities by engaging in life-saving, humane—and legal—community cat programs (CCP) for outdoor-living cats. If you want to know about the issues, and how to do CCPs right, join us for a walk through the challenges, particulars, and legalities of community cats in California, prepared by the San Francisco SPCA’s Shelter PALS (Shelter Policy and Legal Services) program.

VETGirl Presents (fee applies for non-members): In this 1-hour, VETgirl leadership webinar, Dr. Lisa Greenhill, MPA, EdD will discuss how diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) should be key elements of leadership success. Tune in to gain an understanding of how failure to be thoughtful and intentional about DEI can undermine efforts to create and sustain effective teams, leading to strategic blind spots and missed opportunities to impactful partnerships.