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  • Apply by August 8 for New Population Management and Daily Rounds Bootcamp

    Apply by August 8 for New Population Management and Daily Rounds Bootcamp

    The newest Bootcamp from the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse is here to help your team implement efficient and effective daily population management rounds in just six weeks! Whether you wish your rounds were more productive or you haven’t started them yet, Population Management and Daily Rounds Bootcamp will help you improve animal health and welfare, increase the number of animals and people you can help, and decrease staff workload and burnout, length of stay, and the number of animals waiting in your shelter.

    Dr. Cindi Delany observes a dog during daily rounds

    Alongside your peers and fellow Bootcampers, you’ll master the why, how, when, where, and what of implementing and performing rockstar daily rounds through online content and live, interactive Zoom meetings. Led by your coach, Dr. Cindi Delany, you’ll spend two weeks covering the nuts and bolts of population management and daily rounds, then two weeks putting daily rounds into action (or improving what you’re already doing), with team check-ins and coach feedback. In the final two weeks, you’ll learn how to troubleshoot your systems and make your daily population management rounds sustainable long-term—even when you’re short-staffed or nearing (or even over) capacity.

    This cohort-centered course offers real-time implementation support with troubleshooting as you go, and results that will benefit your staff, community, and animals. Dr. Delany has established successful and sustainable rounds at many shelters, decreasing average length of stay by 50% or more and average on-site animal inventory by 50% or more, all while increasing live releases and animals helped, enhancing shelters’ ability to provide the Right Care, in the Right Time, with the Right Care, to achieve the Right Outcome for each animal. 

    Best of all, #ThanksToMaddie and the Maddie’s® Million Pet Challenge Learniverse, Population Management and Daily Rounds Bootcamp is free to all participants! To ensure everyone receives the personalized coaching that makes a difference in your success, this session will be open to eight shelters; a waitlist will be created for future sessions. 

    Get your team on board and turn your population management processes and daily rounds into a well-oiled machine that boosts the well-being of animals and people! Learn more and apply by August 8.

  • Webinar – 8/8/22 – Help! My Dog Won’t Stop Barking. – PPG (fee applies)

    Webinar – 8/8/22 – Help! My Dog Won’t Stop Barking. – PPG (fee applies)

    Dogs bark for many reasons! This interactive seminar will explain why dogs bark and give you strategies to stop it.

    Learning Objectives:

    • Learn why dogs bark and what may be triggering it.
    • Understanding canine body language
    • Creating a behavior modification plan

    CEUs: PPAB 1, CCPDT (pending), IAABC (pending), KPA (pending)

    Presenter: Shannon Riley-Coyner

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://petprofessionalguild.com/event-4874877

  • Webinar – 7/28/22 – Improving Canine Lives by Increasing Agency – FDSA (fee applies)

    Webinar – 7/28/22 – Improving Canine Lives by Increasing Agency – FDSA (fee applies)

    Agency has become something of a buzzword in the positive reinforcement training community. But what exactly is agency, and why is it so important? In this seminar, Dr. Kristina Spaulding and Irith Bloom will provide you with a stronger understanding of agency. They will also give you tools to increase both agency and stress resiliency. Want an optimistic dog? This session is for you!

    Presenters: Dr. Kristina Spaulding & Irith Bloom

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://www.fenzidogsportsacademy.com/index.php/self-study/webinars

  • Online Course – Starts 11/6/22 – Fundamentals of Animal Behavior and Learning – IAABC (fee applies)

    Online Course – Starts 11/6/22 – Fundamentals of Animal Behavior and Learning – IAABC (fee applies)

    By the end of this course, you will be able to:

    • Think scientifically about animal training and behavior consulting for all species.
    • Break training into component principles.
    • Analyze environmental events that maintain behavior.
    • Recognize how labels such as “aggressive” or “submissive” cloud your thinking and work.
    • Establish accurate descriptions of animals who are said to be “confident,” “creative,” “a problem solver,” and how you should approach those learners.
    • Understand the common principles at play in different animals & species.
    • Directly assess behavior and train more humanely and effectively by cutting through the jargon.

    Duration: 4 weeks

    Instructor: JoAnna Platzer, B.Sc. & Dr. Erica Feuerbacher

    This four-week course will begin on the specified start date. The first three weeks will explore the scope of the course. There will be no new content in the fourth week which is reserved for completing final projects, discussion and synthesizing the course content.

    Students will have access to the course for 1 year from the date of their most recent IAABC Foundation purchase.

    Online Lectures: Each week there will be several short videos (10-20 minutes each; typically 60-90 minutes total per week) that will discuss the topics for that week.

    Online Readings with Reading Guides: Each week you will have a scientific reading with a guide to help you navigate the reading. The paper will exemplify the principles being discussed that week.

    Online Assignments: During Weeks 1-3, you will have 1-2 short online assignments each week. Some of these will entail you giving an example and then giving feedback on examples provided by a few of your fellow students.

    Online Posts: During Weeks 2-4 you will post two questions, comments or reflections relevant to the material from the previous week to the discussion forum. You will also respond to at least two of your fellow students’ posts from that week (= a total of four posts per week). Your questions and responses will be graded based on their thoughtfulness and completeness.

    Final Project: During Week 4, you will complete a final project/paper in which you will synthesize the topics covered to cohesively analyze and scientifically critique publicly available training videos and handouts.1

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://iaabcfoundation.org/courses/fundamentals-of-animal-behavior-and-learning/

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4

  • Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Zoom Meeting – Monthly – Leadership Job-Alike – HASS

    Human Animal Support Services facilitates Job-Alike Groups to provide colleagues with similar roles and responsibilities the opportunity to discuss common issues, ask questions, determine best practices, and share program ideas among their peers. These groups include collaborative sessions that enable participants to share resources and develop relationships across multiple districts and settings.

    This group is for Leadership in Animal Welfare, Human Animal Support Services, and more, and occurs once a month unless otherwise posted.

    You need only register once to attend each recurring meeting throughout the year. We ask for your email address in order to send out important announcements about upcoming meetings – we do not share your information.

    WEBSITE LINK:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqd-yvrDkiEtxoB6v-gympzL5KOmvKw9M4