The AAWA Presents (fee applies): At The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement’s Spring Conference on June 8-10, you’ll experience tracks aimed at specialties, like Operations, Development, Administration/Finance, Communications and Marketing. And there will always be additional general sessions designed to appeal to all attendees.
Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): When trying to save animals’ lives, it’s important to do more in less time. If building a time machine isn’t an option for you, why not take advantage of the greatest apps and tools out there? With so many to choose from, finding the ones that work in animal welfare can be a daunting task. In this session, you’ll get to see the best options available that are extremely low cost or free.
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 surrender, a behavior perspective on […]
Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): Whether you’re a small rescue group or a huge municipal shelter, this session will provide you with tangible strategies to improve your social media and animal promotional efforts in a time when virtual communications could not be more important. Speakers have experience in non-profit and municipal shelters with intakes ranging from 2,000 to 40,000 pets a year, in addition to serving on the boards of non-shelter animal welfare organizations.
Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this session we will discuss the aspects of data collection, management and analysis. We will explore making sense of the data available to us, how we put information in context and the value of keeping things simple. We will also discuss the potential for, and benefit of, automating data collection and analysis.
Community Cats Podcast and National Kitten Coalition Present (fee applies): The Online Kitten Conference will be back in 2021 for the third consecutive year! The conference is jointly hosted by The Community Cat Podcast and The National Kitten Coalition and will again feature amazing speakers and a wide range of information all about kittens. Check back soon for registration information and more details!
Community Cats Podcast and National Kitten Coalition Present (fee applies): The Online Kitten Conference will be back in 2021 for the third consecutive year! The conference is jointly hosted by The Community Cat Podcast and The National Kitten Coalition and will again feature amazing speakers and a wide range of information all about kittens. Check back soon for registration information and more details!
PuppyWorks Presents (fee applies): In this new webinar series from Suzanne Clothier, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how temperament affects whether training is or is not successful, depending on the individual dog, handler & task; a dog’s intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, how it affects what it wants to do, can do, struggles to do & how this effects training and homing; and structure for thinking about what to want, need & expect from a dog and how to identify a best match-home for a dog.
Community Cats Podcast and National Kitten Coalition Present (fee applies): The Online Kitten Conference will be back in 2021 for the third consecutive year! The conference is jointly hosted by The Community Cat Podcast and The National Kitten Coalition and will again feature amazing speakers and a wide range of information all about kittens. Check back soon for registration information and more details!
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Maddie’s Fund, in concert with American Pets Alive!, hosts a weekly hour-long Zoom call for animal welfare workers and volunteers. While these calls started out as a response to COVID-19, it’s grown into so much more. These calls are a safe place to discuss uncomfortable topics, all while sharing a common goal of preserving the human-animal bond.
Learners will be invited to join a cohort of 75 individuals that will meet virtually for three months via the Litmos LMS platform. Each cohort will be invited to twice-monthly (bi-weekly) hour-long, live meetings via Zoom webinar so that questions can be answered live. The bi-weekly meetings will feature video analysis and discussion of relevant topics. A discussion board per cohort will be maintained and moderated. After matriculation of each cohort, the cohort’s discussion board will be archived.
Brittany Sundell of Idaho’s West Valley Humane Society joins us to discuss her innovative research measuring the impact of Return to Field efforts in her community. Through collars, cameras, community […]
PPG Presents (fee applies): Find out why your dog whines, barks or lunges at other animals or people and learn ways to help him or her become less reactive. Is your dog really aggressive or scared? This webinar discusses the underlying issues that cause our dogs to act out and how we can identify them.
Fear Free Presents: In this webinar, Kenneth M. Martin, DVM, DACVB and Debbie Martin, CPDT-KA, KPA CTP, LVT, VTS (Behavior), will provide you with 5 tips to give new pet owners so they can start the relationship off on the right paw, facilitate a strong bond, and keep pets in the home and coming back to your veterinary clinic.
The AAWA Presents: We’ll discuss how to calculate a goal and fit a solution to your shelter’s needs. Learn about the 3 types of medical care that communities can start providing to families now in an effort to decrease shelter surrender and increase reclaim of pets with inaccessible medical needs.
AmPa! Presents: The AmPA! weekly Maddie’s Instructor Summit offers shelters and rescues a chance to talk through the most current animal sheltering challenges! Topics will change each week. You’ll join AmPA! and HASS Staff and industry leaders, but, more importantly, you’ll be able to engage face to face (digitally!) with people like you. Because not feeling alone makes this work a lot easier.
HSVMA Presents: While there has been a little more education and information provided to veterinary professionals on how to support animal owners through their grief, very little attention is paid to the grief veterinary professionals experience themselves. This program covers grief reactions related to the primary and secondary losses veterinary professionals experience every day.
Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): In this workshop, learn the secrets to achieving customer service excellence, from what to say and how to say it to body language techniques that can help you build quick rapport with the people you serve every day. This is a fun and engaging workshop that shows staff the many ways to engage people in positive ways.
Humane Canada Presents (fee applies): Join us on June 17 to learn from experts from across the continent on the important connection between animals, community members and animal sheltering organizations.
Texas Unites Presents (fee applies): If you know the basics of customer service and want more advanced techniques and strategies to handle difficult people, this workshop is for you. During this session, you’ll learn more about body language, word choice and tone; language techniques, like agreement frames and reframing, that can help people see things more positively; and special strategies on how to manage and deal with difficult people, whether they be clients or co-workers.
