Calling all vets: special UW & ASV shelter medicine national rounds session for veterinarians to discuss HQHVSN on 3/23, Tue, from 3-430pm CST

UW & ASV will be holding a series of shelter medicine national rounds sessions for veterinarians to learn and hear from our colleagues about the challenges you face practicing shelter medicine and the implications of these challenges on animal sheltering and community wellbeing. This first session will be on Tues, 3/23, at 3-430pm CST focusing on: the relationship of HQHVSN to access to care. We’ll break out into small discussion groups to hear each other’s thoughts on the future of HQHVSN as shelter medicine continues to evolve and grow. You might have read that recent VIN article (“Have s/n policies in the U.S. been too effective?”)…so let’s talk about that and more with candor and openness.

National Shelter Medicine Rounds is held on the same Zoom link for every session:

https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97442637396

Meeting ID: 974 4263 7396

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Recordings and shared documents/links info:

• Recorded rounds can be found at this box link:  https://uwmadison.box.com/s/bdzl9zkkkcy5komx5cvkqc3nsmik9jc1 Some more formalized rounds will be recorded but many discussions will not be recorded in order better facilitate open and honest discussion. If you do not see a previous rounds on this document then it was not recorded.
• Links/documents shared in the chat during rounds can be accessed at this box link: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/9aafkcezkivmnb569upycuvxjpbgftvx  We will be saving any documents and links that are shared in the chat in this folder called ‘Links shared in chat’
• You should be able to access these box folders as a guest at any time without a sign in necessary.

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. I LOVE this on so many levels – showcasing the shelter’s commitment to “both ends of the leash,” building trust with local communities, allowing field officers (most of whom are already vaccinated) to be able to share their direct experience. As we’ve found with so many other things in animal welfare, no amount of preaching and teaching will replace one on one human connection. And this collaboration has already led to some exciting future collaborative plans…so hope you can join us to hear all about it and ask questions.

And a heads up: after next Thursday’s call we will be shifting to the 1^st and 3^rd Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. starting on April 6^th. We’re sorry for the switcheroo for those who have an easier time with morning calls – and hope some who haven’t been able to make the morning calls might be able to join us some afternoons.

CASCAR room link: https://sheltermedicine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJQtdO-srDItyMz7xy-ZsncbcFa6s8kKZg