UCD-KSMP

KSMP Presents: Join us for one whole agenda-less hour of reflection and merry-making! 2020 has been a doozy, but we've made it through with a little help from our friends. Let's take an hour to celebrate the power of community, good intentions and terrible drawing skills (just a prediction). Bad holiday sweaters and early morning imbibing is encouraged, but not required. 

UC Davis KSMP Presents: Welcome to 2021! Join us this Thursday morning as we check in and talk about what's next in the new year for California animal shelters.

KSMP Presents: LA County had already begun discussing a strategic rollout of Managed Intake, but Covid came along and forced so many of our hands. Last spring, seemingly overnight, Managed Intake was launched countywide at all seven Animal Care Centers in LA County. While there wasn't time for the communication or implementation runway they had hoped for, the team had already done their research, knew a streamlined process served more animals and people, and they were committed to their decision. Come hear about how they did it—the challenges, surprises, and the celebrations—and how they are going all-in on a larger plan for Managed Sheltering.

KSMP Presents: You listed managed admissions/appointment-based services as the number one change you made in 2020 that you'd like to see carried forward in 2021. We heard you loud and clear, so this Thursday we'll be carrying the conversation forward with three more of your fellow CASCARites sharing their journey to appointment-based admissions. Kelly Miott (Tri-City Animal Shelter), Tracy Mohr, (Chico Animal Shelter) and Teri Rockhold (Fresno Humane), we're looking forward to hearing your stories Thursday morning!

KSMP Presents: This coming Thursday, in addition to the usual hellos and whatever is pressing on people’s minds, we will hear a quick update from Chris Mayer, the Commander of Field Operations for the Riverside County Dept. of Animal Services, on how the various changes of the past year have been integrated into the work of their field services team. I heard him speak on a recent Maddie’s Friday Leadership Call and asked him to give a reprise for us as the field service perspective is such an important one to include. We are eager to hear from you as well – field officers are on the front lines of communication, often on their own in the moment. What has worked well, what challenges have you run across in terms of supporting officers and bringing the whole shelter team along with new programs and policies?

KSMP Presents: This week we'll continue the conversation we started on February 18: an oral history of the partnership between Long Beach Animal Services and Stray Cat Alliance to implement one of the early SNR/RTF/community cat programs in California. Kelly Miott (erstwhile with Long Beach Animal Care Services), Staycee Dains (current director of LBACS), and Anna Wong and Christi Metropole (Stray Cat Alliance) have agreed to join us. This is an experiment but hopefully will be fun and interesting and will inspire more sharing of the many great stories in California animal welfare and sheltering. 

KSMP Presents: On this week's CASCAR call, Jace Huggins from the Front Street Shelter in Sacramento will be describing how they’ve partnered with their local public health department to get vaccine information out to the community (in five different languages!) where it is most needed, in conjunction with the team’s regular activities in the field.

KSMP Presents: Join us this week at CASCAR as we talk about how we can turn our creativity and resilience towards sustaining the positive changes that have come out of the pandemic and meet the challenges associated with re-opening and recovery.

KSMP Presents: This week at CASCAR researcher Bailey Eagan, who has been working with the BC SPCA to measure and evaluate the impact of noise in shelters, will present her latest findings. Join us for a discussion on how shelters can continue to optimize noise levels and maintain the behavioral wellness benefits for pets as we move towards reopening.

KSMP Presents: This week at CASCAR we will be hearing from our friends Dave Hachey and Dr. Lucas Pantaleon, part of the team that brought us Rescue, aka accelerated hydrogen peroxide, about a new air purifier they are helping bring to the market. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and understand better the science and potential of a novel approach to pathogen inactivation in the air.

KSMP Presents: As California prepares to fully reopen in less than three weeks, we're opening the CASCAR floor to hear from you: When it comes to sheltering by appointment, where are you now? What's working and where are the biggest wins being gained so far? Where are the biggest challenges and fears still hanging out? What's the one thing still standing in your way?

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 relationships, and mapping, she and her team are able to mitigate complaints, dispel fear over RTF practices, and even increase community involvement in cat care. […]

KSMP Presents: Tom Kremer will give us some of the key insights from his study, "A New Web-Based Tool for RTO-Focused Animal Shelter Data Analysis," and answer questions about how this online tool can be adapted for use by any shelter. 

KSMP Presents: While Governor Newsom hasn’t yet signed the budget, all signs are looking like we'll have 50M things to talk about, Tuesday, July 13th, with California shelters that want to learn more about the historic California for All Dogs and Cats journey we're about to embark upon!!! We want to make sure every voice is heard so please take a moment to invite a California shelter friend you don't often see in CASCAR, and especially those you maybe haven't seen at all. 

KSMP Presents: Join us for a CASCAR Community Cat Program Q&A with Maddie's Director of Feline Lifesaving Monica Frenden, HSUS Senior Analyst for Cat Protection and Policy Danielle Bays, Stray Cat Alliance Executive Director Christi Metropol, and SF SPCA Senior Vice President of Law and Advocacy Brandy Kuentzel. Bring your staff, your questions, and your concerns—this is your chance to streamline your cat intake protocols and messaging!