Did you get all the Continuing Education credits you planned on this year? There’s still time, and we can help you get your CE before New Year’s Day! Check out these webinars and courses on Maddie’s® University, covering everything from fighting disease as intake rises to understanding key finder-foster legal considerations. Better yet, they’re all fee-free #ThanksToMaddie.
You’ll find webinars and self-paced courses from the MMPC Learniverse and others with expert guidance on topics that impact your shelter today, including:
These webinars and self-paced courses have been approved for Certified Animal Welfare Administrator (CAWA) continuing education credits by The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement and by the National Animal Care and Control Association as well as RACE credit in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval. Please review the individual course descriptions for more information.
This series of webinars is brought to you by the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse at the UC Davis Koret Shelter Medicine Program, San Francisco SPCA’s Shelter PALS program, and CalAnimals.
By sharing our diverse expertise and working together to find the intersections where California law impacts animal shelters, we’ve formulated holistic shelter practices that allow you to better leverage the law.
What happens when experts in animal sheltering and California animal law come together to create the ultimate webinar series for shelters? Immediate clarity on the letter of the law, common shelter scenarios solved, and helpful legal tips translated into best practices you can apply today. It’s all available for free on-demand, #ThanksToMaddie!
Your exclusive gateway to unlocking crucial insights, empowering you to address challenges and navigate the intricate landscape of drug and premises permit regulations.
In this short course, you’ll learn how to fully leverage the veterinary care capabilities of your entire team – not just your designated “medical” staff – including front office staff, field officers, kennel attendants, volunteers, and fosters.
This course will explore what community cat programs (CCPs) are, explain why CCPs are needed, and describe how effective CCPs operate in compliance with state and local laws. You’ll learn how your shelter can address cat overpopulation and help cats thrive where they are by implementing humane, life-saving, evidence-based community cat programs.
When it comes to daily shelter activities, the most common questions, and greatest confusion, revolve around intake (if, when, who) of animals, and the applicable holding periods once intake occurs. Knowing which animals should enter the shelter and how long they must stay is crucial to prioritizing intake of the animals who truly need to be at your shelter and minimizing length of stay in shelters for those animals.
What is a “Finder Foster” program – how does it work, how long do finders need to hold an animal and what are other important legal aspects of these programs?
In this course, hosted on Maddie’s® University, you’ll learn how Finder Foster programs can help you reunite more animals with their families, promote animal well-being and minimize stress by reducing time spent in the shelter, and reserve resources for animals who really do need to come in—all by engaging people who are already helping animals in your community.
Does it seem like animals keep getting sick no matter what you do, especially right now with intake numbers climbing in many shelters? Does URI have to be status quo for summer? Is parvo inevitable? Have you wondered what else you can do to get ahead of these vicious cycles?
This course looks at barriers that typically push potential adopters away from animal shelters and towards other options. In addition to examining adoption barriers and the misconceptions that help them persist, we look at strategies that can lower these hurdles.
Within the Four Rights of Animal Sheltering, every element works in concert to support one another: animals and people are treated as individuals, empowering shelter staff to make the best decisions for everyone; community safety net services are in place and flourishing; and humane care within the shelter is provided, with appropriate outcomes for the animals that do come in, allowing shelters to deliver the Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time, and to the Right Outcome.
Learn more about the Four Rights in this series of short webinars and on-demand courses on Maddie’s® University.
How do you determine the “Right Place” for an animal at risk of entering the shelter? In this course, you will learn the framework that allows you to remove decision fatigue and get animals where they need to be—or help them right where they are.
The “Right Time” is the time that best allows services to be provided in alignment with animal and human need and shelter capacity. Within the shelter, it includes setting open hours and offering services by appointment, as well as managing animals in care through pathway planning, hold periods, and daily
Offering the “Right Care” means animals are not left in dangerous circumstances to cause harm, suffer, or die because the shelter can’t admit them; nor are they admitted to a crowded shelter. In this course, we’re going to talk about matching community need to community capacity and shelter capacity and
The Right Outcome is the one that best supports the well-being of animals, honors the connections between humans and pets, stabilizes communities, and maintains public health and safety. When we serve animals in the right place, at the right time, and provide the right care while working within our capacity,
Within the Four Rights, every element works in concert to support one another: animals and people are treated as individuals, empowering shelter staff to make the best decisions for everyone; community safety net services are in place and flourishing; and humane care within the shelter is provided, with appropriate outcomes
Within the Four Rights, every element works in concert to support one another: animals and people are treated as individuals, empowering shelter staff to make the best decisions for everyone; community safety net services are in place and flourishing; and humane care within the shelter is provided, with appropriate outcomes
In March 2023, Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse launched the Spring 2023 Shelter Summit and Fast Tracks with your feedback, busy schedules, and big goals in mind.
Learn more about the Spring 2023 Shelter Summit by Clicking HERE
The Shelter Summit and Fast Tracks are approved for CAWA, NACA and RACE CE credit.
Shelter Summit On-Demand
Now available on demand and at your own pace, we’ll help you learn by doing, create the change you want to see at your shelter, and go further together with your colleagues and the support of expert coaches.
#ThankstoMaddie, participation in the Shelter Summit and Fast Tracks is absolutely free and everyone is welcome!
Click on the Shelter Summit On-Demand below to view the recorded Spring 2023 Shelter Summit at Maddie’s® University.
Shelter Summit Fast Tracks
Ready to make positive changes? The Fast Tracks that happened after the submit were also recorded and are available on-demand on Maddie’s® University. The presentations and discussions will help you sprint from idea to implementation and ongoing improvement.
Click on the name of the Fast Track you are interested in below, and you’ll get access to all the Fast Track meetings you can watch at your own pace.
View recorded sessions from the Spring 2023 Shelter Summit and Fast Tracks half-day online event. Learn about 5 high impact programs/practices to implement NOW at your shelter to help improve operations and outcomes. Continue with implementation by joining a Fast Track to work with the speakers/coaches featured here.
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.
Start transforming numbers and patterns in your intake and outcome reports into concrete benefits for animals and staff. Discover how to increase live release and lower length of stay based on information you already have at your fingertips.
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!
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.
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.
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