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IAABC Presents (fee applies): Join animal welfare professionals at the 2026 IAABC Foundation Animal Behavior Conference. This conference features a dedicated Shelter Track on Saturday, April 25, with sessions on behavior assessment, welfare optimization, and enrichment strategies. Explore 40+ evidence-based sessions across species.
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CalAnimals Presents: You won’t want to miss this important webinar to learn about proactive strategies that helped Washoe County Regional Animal Services achieve Return to Home RTH success of 63% of dogs and 8% of cats.
Free
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us each Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET to receive support and learn about innovative ideas other organizations across the country are seeing success with. If you registered prior to July 2025 or are new to these meetings, please use this link to register:
Free
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Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for a dynamic look at some of the winning strategies from the 2025 Foster 50 Challenge. Through a series of lightning-fast talks, you’ll learn how grant funding helped spark new ideas, expanded foster programs, and created measurable change for communities and animals in need. In this 2-hour webcast, you’ll walk away with practical strategies and inspiration that show what’s possible when shelters invest in fostering. There will be time for your questions and answers, too.
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JYO Presents: The guided meditations happen every month and typically run 30-45 minutes. All are welcome to these very low-key sessions, with videos on or off, whatever feels most comfortable to you. No speaking is necessary unless you’d like to share at the end of the session.
Free
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Don’t Forget the Pets Presents: When it comes to healthcare for pet owners experiencing homelessness, the One Health clinical care model is proving to both improve access to veterinary care as well as human healthcare. In this 1-hour webinar we’ll examine the success of integrated human and veterinary care on healthcare, homeless services, and housing, and explore how this model of care can be modified to meet the needs of your community.
Free
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1 event,
Outcomes for Pets Consulting Presents: Please join us every first Friday of the month to discuss AI use in animal shelters, share new AI developments, and join your peers in discussing creative solutions to common problems.
Free
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Community Cats Central Presents (small fee applies): This workshop is packed with practical advice, field-tested techniques, and inspiration to help you develop your trapping skills make a real difference for community cats. If you’re new to TNR, you’ll gain the essential skills needed to kickstart your TNR journey, while experienced trappers can refresh and sharpen their techniques.
$10
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1 event,
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us each Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET to receive support and learn about innovative ideas other organizations across the country are seeing success with. If you registered prior to July 2025 or are new to these meetings, please use this link to register:
Free
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JYO Presents: The guided meditations happen every month and typically run 30-45 minutes. All are welcome to these very low-key sessions, with videos on or off, whatever feels most comfortable to you. No speaking is necessary unless you’d like to share at the end of the session.
Free
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1 event,
Open Door Veterinary Collective Presents: The veterinary profession is dealing with a workforce shortage and pet families are finding it harder to be able to afford needed care. These issues feel separate, but they actually have a lot more in common than you might think. Join us for a Live Discussion with Valerie Marcano – DVM, PhD, DACPV; Shadi Ireifej, DVM, DACVS; and Serena Nayee, DVM to explore their research, “The Connection Between Access to Care and Access to the Veterinary Profession”, published in Veterinary Ophthalmology.
Free
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1 event,
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Shelters can be overwhelming places, impacting cats’ well-being and adoptability. In this session, we’ll explore actionable strategies to reduce stress and fear for cat fosters. From environmental factors to trust-building techniques, you’ll leave with practical techniques that can be used immediately to reduce stress and fear in cats.
Free
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2 events,
CARE Presents (fee applies): Across three days, The Gathering creates space to examine how the Animal Welfare and Animal Protection fields have caused harm through exclusion, bias, and inequitable practices — and to collectively build pathways toward reform that honor both people and animals.
$325
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Jane Wei-Skillern will share key principles of network leadership—an approach that prioritizes mission over individual organizations and focuses on building strong, trust-based relationships across a broader ecosystem. Rather than working in isolation, leaders can expand their impact by sharing leadership, aligning around a common goal, and mobilizing partners across sectors.
Free
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2 events,
CARE Presents (fee applies): Across three days, The Gathering creates space to examine how the Animal Welfare and Animal Protection fields have caused harm through exclusion, bias, and inequitable practices — and to collectively build pathways toward reform that honor both people and animals.
$325
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One Health Clinic Presents: A monthly One Health Clinic Coffee Hour where participants can talk about successes, discuss barriers, and explore ways to work toward integrated healthcare models for those experiencing homelessness with pets (or rural families or elderly populations).
Free
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5 events,
CARE Presents (fee applies): Across three days, The Gathering creates space to examine how the Animal Welfare and Animal Protection fields have caused harm through exclusion, bias, and inequitable practices — and to collectively build pathways toward reform that honor both people and animals.
$325
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CalAnimals Presents: California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) continues to create significant legal and financial exposure for nonprofit organizations, including animal shelters and animal control agencies. Many well-intentioned employers are unaware of common wage-and-hour compliance gaps that can quickly lead to costly claims. In this practical and informative webinar, employment defense attorney Mandeep Rupal will break down the most common pitfalls that lead to PAGA lawsuits and provide clear, actionable strategies to help organizations reduce risk.
Free
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Community Cats Central Presents: This workshop challenges common assumptions about “stray” cats and reframes how shelters and communities can approach reunification. Instead of treating every found cat as abandoned, this session explores practical, humane strategies that prioritize keeping cats out of shelters and reconnecting them with the families searching for them.
Free
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Best Friends Presents: This webinar will explore how shelters can use the Guidelines to evaluate practices, support decision-making, and strengthen conditions that help animals move safely and successfully through shelter care.
Free
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JYO Presents: The guided meditations happen every month and typically run 30-45 minutes. All are welcome to these very low-key sessions, with videos on or off, whatever feels most comfortable to you. No speaking is necessary unless you’d like to share at the end of the session.
Free
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3 events,
Shelter Behavior Hub Presents (fee applies): Taught by world-renowned shelter expert, Trish McMillan, The Shelter Dog Behavior Mentorship helps shelter staff understand dog behavior, reduce stress, and improve adoption rates. It’s a valuable program for creating a better environment for shelter dogs and promoting successful adoptions. How does this work? In Part One, you’ll do a self-audit of your current behavior programming, and put together a list of goals for the next year. Once you have that list together, you’ll be enrolled in Part Two, for a whole year.
$750
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HASS Presents: The session highlights new data, stories, and tools that help organizations design more empathetic, effective support systems. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to integrate these findings into daily operations and long‑term planning.
Free
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Maddie’s Fund Presents: Meeting both the physical and psychological needs of dogs living in animal shelters is a challenging proposition. Negative environmental inputs, such as excessive noise, restrictive kenneling, and social isolation, contribute to compromised canine welfare. Dr. Lisa Gunter will present her research findings from a recently published study about weeklong fostering and co-housing.
Free
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Community Cats Central Presents (small fee applies): This workshop examines why spay/neuter volume alone isn’t enough to create lasting reductions in community cat populations—and what successful programs do differently. Instead of spreading resources thin, effective TNR programs focus on identifying areas of highest need and strategically concentrating efforts to achieve meaningful, long-term impact.
$10
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Humane Network Presents (fee applies): The shelter environment is a very stressful place that affects the psychological well-being of the animals. Comprehensive behavior programs are essential to keep the animals behaviorally and emotionally healthy during their stay. This eight-week course will give you the knowledge and skills to develop an effective behavior program aimed at improving the welfare of the animals in your care.
$429
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us each Monday at 11am PT/2pm ET to receive support and learn about innovative ideas other organizations across the country are seeing success with. If you are new to these meetings, please use this link to register: https://maddies.fund/CommunityConversationsRegistration2025
Free
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1 event,
Outcomes for Pets Consulting Presents (fee applies): Our next class begins Thursday, June 11. There is a registration fee, but thanks to ShelterLuv, we’re able to provide a limited number of scholarships to students who cannot afford to take the class. Join the more than 120 students who have completed this course, which receives a consistent five-star rating from 98% of participants.
$1200
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3 events,
UC Davis KSMP Presents: At this month’s Shelter Med LIVE, we’ll dive into how we can build better relationships with executive leadership, advocate for medical standards, and take more leadership in shelter decision-making. Join host Dr. Jenn Bennett and guests Drs. Erin Doyle and Ada Norris to strengthen your role across three core areas that drive clinical care: shelter policies and protocols, population health strategies, and organizational culture.
Free
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ASPCAPro Presents: This course provides up‑to‑date training on four emerging toxins in veterinary medicine: oclacitinib, acrylamide, GLP‑1 receptor agonists, and 7‑hydroxymitragynine (a primary kratom alkaloid). You’ll learn how each toxin affects pets, where exposure commonly occurs, how to recognize clinical signs, and current best practices for diagnosis and treatment.
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The Center for Pet and Family Well-being Presents: This webinar will explore: the significance of the human–animal bond; common and complex grief responses; types of grief unique to pet loss; and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across social work, veterinary medicine, and healthcare.
Free
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NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Present: In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create a simple yet powerful wildlife tracking system and see how that data can transform into compelling maps and visual stories using low-cost (or even free) tools. We’ll also feature a real-world case study from our Shelter Mentorship partners at Harker Heights Pet Adoption Center in Texas, showing how data tracking reshaped their approach to wildlife and community engagement.
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Life of Riley at Spring Point Presents: This presentation dives deeper into the breeder category framework JVR Strategies first introduced during Life of Riley’s virtual conference in October 2025. The framework organizes breeders into several categories and offers one way to describe these groups, helping bring greater clarity and alignment to conversations about the breeding landscape.
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Best Friends Presents: Whether you’re a shelter leader, manager, staff member, or volunteer — this webinar is for anyone looking for practical, achievable ways to test new ideas, build momentum for change, and move lifesaving efforts forward — one pilot at a time. Save your seat and join live!
Free
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AAVMP Presents: Please join us for our second AAVMP webinar focused on wellness to celebrate AANHPI month!
Free
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IAABC Presents (fee applies): Are you looking to improve your success with dogs struggling with impulsivity, hyperactivity, reactivity, or fear? Whether you’re just getting started with these cases or want to sharpen your skills, this 8-week mentorship is designed to give you the tools and confidence to handle them more effectively.
$600
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4 events,
HASS Presents: Our next HASS Connect is all about ADOPTIONS! What’s working right now and what’s standing in our way. We want to hear from you: Is your community seeing success with low-barrier adoptions or creative off-site events? Are you struggling with longer lengths of stay for large dogs or the impact of housing restrictions?
Free
Maddie’s Fund Presents: Resource guarding is a common behaviour seen in dogs entering rescue and shelter environments, often arising from stress, uncertainty, and past experiences around scarce or valuable resources. This presentation explores the current research on resource guarding and how it applies to real-world rescue settings. Participants will learn how to recognize and assess resource guarding safely, understand the factors that contribute to the behaviour, and interpret guarding signals in a shelter context.
Free
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NACA/Justice Clearinghouse Presents: This webinar will explore how these criminal enterprises overlap, what that means for animal care and control officers in the field, and how understanding these connections can improve investigations and outcomes.
Free
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MCVMA Presents: This session features Dr. Sohaila Jafarian, discussing her chapter, The Value of Qualitative Research in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Together, we’ll explore how qualitative research can surface lived experiences, deepen understanding of inequities, and inform more responsive, effective approaches to care, education, and leadership. Join us for a thoughtful, interactive discussion that connects research to real-world application.
Free
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Maddie’s Fund Presents: Join us for what will be a full-court press leaning into prevention and solutions on a very broad scale. If you registered prior to July 2025 or are new to these meetings, please use this link to register:
Free
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1 event,
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JYO Presents: The guided meditations happen every month and typically run 30-45 minutes. All are welcome to these very low-key sessions, with videos on or off, whatever feels most comfortable to you. No speaking is necessary unless you’d like to share at the end of the session.
Free
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1 event,
Open Door Veterinary Collective Presents: Join us for live (and lively) discussions of important topics and research about strategies for increasing access to veterinary care. In our June Live Community Discussion we welcome Dr. Amara Estrada, to discuss “Beating Heart Disease with Spectrum of Care Strategies.”
Free
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1 event,
Maddie’s Fund Presents: In this presentation, Misty Valenta will explore how your community can transform the way you look at your intake counter. Building a community-based team through fostering benefits the everyone involved – especially the pets!
Free
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1 event,
Outcomes for Pets Consulting Presents: Please join us every first Friday of the month to discuss AI use in animal shelters, share new AI developments, and join your peers in discussing creative solutions to common problems.
Free
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1 event,
Community Cats Central Presents (fee applies): Over this two-day event, animal shelter professionals, caregivers, fosters, and kitten enthusiasts will come together to deepen their knowledge and sharpen skills for raising healthy kittens and running successful kitten programs. Sessions will cover a wide range of topics, from socializing feral kittens for adoption and managing foster programs to exploring innovative initiatives that empower communities to care for kittens of any age.
$75
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